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Title Cleveland noir / edited by Michael Ruhlman & Miesha Wilson Headen.

Publication Info. Brooklyn, NY : Akashic Books, [2023]
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Location Call No. Status
 Granby, Main Library - Self-Published  SELF MCSWAIN, DANA    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  M NOIR CLEVELAND    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - New Materials  FIC MYS CLE    Check Shelf
Description 283 pages : map ; 21 cm
Series Akashic noir series
Akashic noir series.
Summary "Cleveland is a working-class town, though its great institutions were founded by twentieth-century robber barons and magnates . . . It's this mix of the wealthy and the working class that makes this city--an urban center of brick and girders surrounded by verdant suburbs--a perfect backdrop for lawlessness. Cleveland has certainly seen its share of high-profile crime. Eliot Ness, Cleveland's director of public safety in the 1930s, hunted unsuccessfully for the 'torso murderer' who killed and dismembered twelve people in Kingsbury Run, the area now known as the Flats, then populated by bars, brothels, flophouses, and gambling dens. The famous disappearance of Beverly Potts in the early 1950s on Cleveland's west side made national headlines. The sensational murder of Marilyn Sheppard in Bay Village and the imprisonment and eventual acquittal of her husband, the surgeon Sam Sheppard, became the basis for a popular television drama The Fugitive . . . The noir stories in this volume hit all these same notes, and their geographies reflect the history of the city and its politics, its laws, poverty, alienation, racism, crime, and violence"--Page 4 of cover.
Contents Part I: City center. Love always / Paula McLain -- The silent partner / Susan Petrone -- Under the hill / Mary Grimm -- Bus stop / Dana McSwain -- Part II: The outliers. Sugar daddy / Abby L. Vandiver -- Jock talk / Sam Conrad -- Bitter / Angela Crook -- Part III: The trendy. Tremonster / D.M. Pulley -- The book of numbers / Miesha Wilson Headen -- The house on Fir Avenue / Alex DiFrancesco -- The Laderman affair / J.D. Belcher -- Part IV: the heights. Mock heart / Jill Bialosky -- The fallen / Thrity Umrigar -- The ultimate cure / Michael Ruhlman -- Lenny, but not Corky / Daniel Stashower.
Subject Noir fiction, American.
Detective and mystery stories, American.
Short stories, American.
Cleveland (Ohio) -- Fiction.
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies.
Genre/Form Detective and mystery fiction.
Short stories.
Noir fiction.
Added Author Ruhlman, Michael, 1963- editor, author.
Headen, Miesha Wilson, editor, author.
Habibion, Sohrab, cartographer.
McLain, Paula, contributor.
Petrone, Susan, contributor.
Grimm, Mary, contributor.
McSwain, Dana, contributor.
Vandiver, Abby L., contributor.
Conrad, Sam, contributor.
Crook, Angela, contributor.
Pulley, D. M., contributor.
DiFrancesco, Alex, contributor.
Belcher, J. D., contributor.
Bialosky, Jill, contributor.
Umrigar, Thrity N., contributor.
Stashower, Daniel, contributor.
ISBN 1636140998 (paperback)
9781636140995 (paperback)
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