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THE BURGLAR

There’s a moment in David Goodis’s novelĀ ‘Dark Passage’ in which the difference between the protagonists of noir fiction and the protagonists of straight-up crime fiction is laid bare. It comes in the form of an imagined conversation with a corpse, … Continue reading

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THE BRIDE WORE BLACK

When it comes to noir fiction of the golden age, it seems to be the consensus of opinion that there are four names to be spoken with hushed reverence. They are, of course: Chandler, Hammett, Cain and Woolrich. But, for … Continue reading

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