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Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s & 40s

by James M. Cain, Horace McCoy, Edward Anderson, Kenneth Fearing, William Lindsay Gresham, Cornell Woolrich · 1997

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The first collection in a two-volume set celebrating American crime fiction contains classic novels of the 1930s and 1940s, including 'The Postman Always Rings Twice', 'Thieves Like Us', 'Nightmare Alley', 'The Big Clock', 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?', and 'I Married a Dead Man'.

Genre
crimecrimeMore like thisLess of thisnoirnoirMore like thisLess of thismysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thisdetectivedetectiveMore like thisLess of this
Setting
20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 990 pages
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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