Title Crime novels : American noir of the 1930s and 40s : The postman always rings twice ; They shoot horses, don't they ; Thieves like us ; The big clock ; Nightmare alley ; I married a dead man.

Publication Info.	New York : Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed by Penguin Books, [1997]
	©1997

1 hold on first copy returned of 12 copies

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Location	Call No.	Status
Burlington Public Library - Adult Department	CLASSIC 813.08 CRIME	Check Shelf
Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department	MYSTERY CRIME	Check Shelf
East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department	M CRI	Check Shelf
Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department	813.087 CRIME	Check Shelf
Granby, Main Library - Adult	CRIME	Check Shelf
Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Fiction	F CRIME	Check Shelf
Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Mystery	MYS-CRI	Check Shelf
New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction	808.32 C86CI c.2	Check Shelf
Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction	813 CRI	Check Shelf
Portland Public Library - Adult Department	FIC MYS CRI	Check Shelf

Description	990 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Series	The library of America ; 94
	Library of America ; 94.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 983-990).
Contents	The postman always rings twice (James M. Cain) -- They shoot horses, don't they (Horace McCoy) -- Thieves like us (Edward Anderson) -- The big clock (Kenneth Fearing) -- Nightmare alley (William Lindsay Gresham) -- I married a dead man (Cornell Woolrich).
Summary	"This adventurous volume, with its companion devoted to the 1950s, presents a rich vein of modern American writing too often neglected in mainstream literary histories. Evolving out of the terse and violent hardboiled style of the pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over the decades into a varied and innovative body of writing. Tapping deep roots in the American literary imagination, the novels in this volume explore themes of crime, guilt, deception, obsessive passion, murder, and the disintegrating psyche. With visionary and often subversive force they create a dark and violent mythology out of the most commonplace elements of modern life. The raw power of their vernacular style has profoundly influenced contemporary American culture and writing. Far from formulaic, they are ambitious works which bend the rules of genre fiction to their often experimental purposes."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject	Detective and mystery stories, American.
	American fiction -- 20th century.
	Noir fiction, American.
	Detective and mystery stories.
Added Author	Cain, James M. (James Mallahan), 1892-1977. Postman always rings twice.
Added Title	The postman always rings twice.
	They shoot horses, don't they.
	Thieves like us.
	The big clock.
	Nightmare alley.
	I married a dead man.
Other Form:	Online version: Crime novels. New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA, c1997 (OCoLC)647688363
ISBN	1883011469 alkaline paper
	9781883011468 alkaline paper

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