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     Noir & Hardboiled
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"To preserve the truth, we need mysteries."
— Andrei Tarkovsky


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Noir & Hardboiled & Pulp

L.A. Noir   "L.A. Noir: The City As Character" [2005]
by Alain Silver & James Ursini

Santa Monica Press 8½x11 pb [10/2005] for $14.56
Scene of the Crime  
"Scene of the Crime: Photographs From The L.A.P.D. Archive" [2004]
Foreword by Chief William J. Bratton, Introduction by James Ellroy, Essay by Tim B. Wride

Harry N. Abrams 13½x8.3 hardcover [10/2004] for $23.80
Heartbreak & Vine   "Heartbreak and Vine" [2003]
by Woody Haut

Serpent's Tail 8½x5¼ pb [4/2003] for $11.90
Hardboiled Mystery Writers   "Hardboiled Mystery Writers: Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross Macdonald - A Literary Reference" [2002]
Edited by Matthew Bruccoli & Richard Layman

Carroll & Graf 10x7 pb [7/2002] for $15.40
Black & White & Noir   "Black & White & Noir: America's Pulp Modernism" [2002]
by Paula Rabinowitz

Columbia Univ Press 9x6.3 pb [7/2002] for $18.50
Columbia Univ Press hardcover [7/2002] for $49.50
Bad Girls   "Bad Girls of Pulp Fiction" [2002]
Running Press 3½x3 miniature [3/2002] for $4.95
Mammoth Action   "The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action" [2001]
Edited by Maxim Jakubowski

Carroll & Graf 11¼x4¾ pb [12/2001] for $9.56
Gumshoe America   "Gumshoe America: Hard Boiled Crime Fiction & The Rise & Fall of New Deal Liberalism" [2000]
by Sean McCann

Duke Univ Press 9x6¼ pb [11/2000] for $24.95
Duke Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/2000] for $89.95
AH Pulps   "Adventure House Guide To The Pulps: A Checklist of The Pulp Magazine Era" [2000]
by John Gunnison, John Locke & Doug Ellis

Adventure House pb [7/2000] out of print/used
HBWCRPM   "Hard-Boiled: Working Class Readers & Pulp Magazines" [2000]
by Erin A. Smith

Temple Univ Press 9x6 pb [6/2000] for $15.96
America Noir   "America Noir: Underground Writers & Filmmakers of The Postwar Era" [2000]
by David Cochran

Smithsonian Inst. Press 9x6½ hardcover
[5/2000] for $22.36
Sins of the City   "Sins of The City: The Real Los Angeles Noir" [1999]
by Jim Heimann

Chronicle Books 10x7½ pb [7/99] for $13.27
Women Rewriting Hard-Boiled    "Detective Agency: Women Rewriting The Hard-Boiled Tradition" [1999]
by Priscilla L. Walton & Manina Jones

Univ CA Press 9x6 pb [5/99] for $18.95
Univ CA Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [5/99] out of print/used
Neon Noir   "Neon Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction" [1999]
by Woody Haut

Serpents Tail 8½x5 pb [4/99] for $13.59
Big Noir   "The Big Book of Noir" [1998]
Edited by Ed Gorman, Lee Server & Martin H. Greenberg

Carroll & Graf 10x7¼ pb [10/98] out of print/used
Novels 30s-40s   "Crime Novels: American Noir of The 1930s & 40s" [1997]
Edited by Robert Polito

Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [9/97] for $24.50
Novels 50s   "Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s" [1997]
Edited by Robert Polito

Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [9/97] for $24.50
Hardboiled America   "Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks & The Masters of Noir" [1997]
by Geoffrey O'Brien

DaCapo Press 9x6 pb [4/97] for $13.56
Mammoth Fiction   "The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction" [1996]
Edited by Maxim Jakubowski

Carroll & Graf 11¼x4¾ pb [8/96] for $9.56
Pulp Culture   "Pulp Culture: Hardboiled Fiction & The Cold War" [1996]
by Woody Haut

Serpents Tail 8x5½ pb [4/96] for $12.79
cover of original February 1940 'Dime Detective'   "The Dime Detectives" [1988]
by Ron Goulart

Mysterious Press 8¾x6 hardcover [11/88] out of print/many used
HB Explicator   "The Hardboiled Explicator: A Guide To The Study of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett & Ross Macdonald" [1985]
by Robert E. Skinner

Scarecrow Press pb [9/2002] for $24.95
Scarecrow Press pb [2/85] out of print/used


Books on Mysteries

Booze & the Private Eye   "Booze and The Private Eye: Alcohol In The Hard-Boiled Novel" [2004]
by Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe

McFarland & Co. 9x6 pb [8/2004] for $35.00
Elements of Mystery Fiction   "The Elements of Mystery Fiction: Writing The Modern Whodunit" [2004]
by William G. Tapply

Poisoned Pen Press 8½x5½ pb [5/2004] for $11.53
Write A Damn Good Mystery   "How To Write A Damn Good Mystery: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide From Inspiration To Finished Manuscript" [2004]
by James N. Frey

St. Martin 8½x5¾ hardcover [2/2004] for $15.61
Women Mystery Writers   "Atomic Renaissance: Women Mystery Writers of The 1940s & 1950s" [2003]
by Jeffrey Marks

Delphi Books 9½x6 hardcover [9/2003] for $21.95
Classic Era of Crime Fiction   "The Classic Era of Crime Fiction" [2002]
by Peter Haining

Chicago Review Press 11¾x9 pb [9/2002] for $35.00
Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction   "The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction" [2002]
by Mike Ashley

Carroll & Graf 7¾x5¼ pb [5/2002] for $9.71
Died in Vain   "They Died In Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated & Forgotten Mystery Novels" [2002]
Edited by Jim Huang

Crum Creek Press 8x5 pb [4/2002] for $10.40
Mystery Writers of America Handbook   "Writing Mysteries: A Handbook By The Mystery Writers of America" [1976; 2nd edition 2002]
Edited by Sue Grafton

Writers Digest 9x6 pb [4/2002] for $11.04
M.W.A. hardcover [10/2002] out of print/used
History of Mystery   "The History of Mystery" [2001]
by Max Allan Collins

Collectors Press 12¼x11¼ hardcover [10/2001] for $38.25
100 Favorite   "100 Favorite Mysteries of The Century" [2000]
Edited by Jim Huang

Crum Creek Press pb[12/2000] for $9.60
Oxford Companion   "The Oxford Companion To Crime & Mystery Writing" [1999]
Edited by Rosemary Herbert

Oxford Univ Press 9½x6¾ hardcover [12/99] out of print/used
Encyclopedia of Murder & Mystery   "The Encyclopedia of Murder & Mystery" [1999]
by Bruce F. Murphy

Palgrave Macmillan 9¼x7½ pb [2/2002] for $17.47
Palgrave Macmillan 9¾x8 hardcover [12/99] out of print/used
Write a Mystery   "You Can Write A Mystery" [1999]
by Gillian Roberts

Writers Digest Books 9x6 pb [8/99] for $10.39
Killer Books reference   "Killer Books: A Reader's Guide To Exploring The Popular World of Mystery & Suspense" [1998]
by Jean Swanson & Dean James

Berkley Trade 9¼x6 pb [4/98] out of print/many used
Detecting Women   "Detecting Women: A Readers Guide & Checklist For Mystery Series Written by Women" [3rd edition 1999]
by Willetta L. Heising

Purple Moon Press pb [12/99] for $36.94
Purple Moon Press 11&fracx8¾ hardcover [12/99] for $31.47
'Pocket Guide' edition [10/98] for $11.87
Detecting Men   "Detecting Men: A Readers Guide & Checklist for Mystery Series Written by Men" [1997]
by Willetta L. Heising

Purple Moon Press 11x8½ pb [3/98] for $20.97
'Pocket Guide' edition [3/97] for $11.87
Blues Detective   "The Blues Detective: A Study of African American Detective Fiction" [1996]
by Stephen F. Soitos

Univ MA Press 9½x6 pb [2/96] for $21.95
Univ MA Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [2/96] out of print/used
Spooks, Spies   "Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes: Black Mystery, Crime & Suspense Fiction" [1995]
Edited by Paula L. Woods

Main Street Books 8¼x5½ pb [11/96] out of print/used
Doubleday 9x8¼ hardcover [11/95] out of print/used
Femmes Fatales   "Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Criticism, Psychoanalysis"
[1991] by Mary Ann Doane

Routledge 9x6 pb [8/91] for $20.99
Routledge hardcover [8/91] out of print/used
Woman Detective   "The Woman Detective: Gender & Genre" [1988]
by Kathleen Gregory Klein

Univ IL Press 9x6 pb [2/95] for $18.95
Univ IL Press hardcover [88] out of stock/used
Keating's 100 Best Books   "Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books" [1987]
by H. R. F. Keating

Carroll & Graf 8x5½ pb [1/97] for $8.96
Carroll & Graf hardcover [11/87] out of print/used

"Sons of Sam Spade: The Private-Eye Novel In The Seventies" [1980]
by David Geherin
Continuum pb [1/83] out of print/used
Ungar hardcover [3/80] out of print/used

"The Complete Detective: Being The Life and Strange & Exciting Cases
of Raymond Schindler, Master Detective" [1950]
by Rupert Hughes
recommended by Erle Stanley Gardner
Sheridan House hardcover - out of print/used




Technical Books

Forensics For Dummies   "Forensics For Dummies" [2004]
by Douglas P. Lyle, MD

nominated for an Edgar Award
For Dummies 9¼x7¼ pb [4/2004] for $13.59
Crime Scene Investigation   "Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation" [YR=?]
by Barry A. J. Fisher

CRC Press 7th edition hardcover [9/2003] for $79.17

"Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation, Seventh Edition, Interactive Training CD-ROM"
CRC Press CD-ROM [6/2004] for $78.38

Homicide Investigation   "Homicide Investigation: Practical Information For Coroners, Police Officers & Other Investigators"
by Dr. Lemoyne Snyder

recommended often by Erle Stanley Gardner
Charles C. Thomas 3rd edition pb [9/77] for $47.95
Charles C. Thomas 3rd edition hardcover [9/77] for $74.95

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