Part I: The jazz age. 30 seconds of darkness / Harry Stephen Keeler -- Brother / Sherwood Anderson -- Kaddish for the kid / Max Allan Collins -- The man who went to Chicago (excerpt) / Richard Wright -- Part II: Noir & neo-noir. He swung and he missed / Nelson Algren -- I'll cut your throat again, Kathleen / Fredric Brown -- The price of salt (excerpt) / Patricia Highsmith -- The starving dogs of Little Croatia / Barry Gifford -- Blue Note / Stuart M. Kaminsky -- The whole world is watching / Libby Fischer Hellman -- Part III: Modern crime. Skin deep / Sara Paretsky -- Death and the point spread / Percy Spurlard Parker -- One holy night / Sandra Cisneros -- The thirtieth amendment / Hugh Holton -- We didn't / Stuard Dybek.
