Introduction
It’s been noir around here for ages
Part I
The old school
Mrs. Manstey’s view
by Edith Wharton
A poker game
by Stephen Crane
The furnished room
by O. Henry
Sailor off the Bremen
by Irwin Shaw
New York blues
by Cornell Woolrich
Part II
The poets
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
Selections from
Chelsea Rooming House
by Horace Gregory
Selections from
The McSorley poems
by Geoffrey Bartholomew
Part III
Darkness visible
The luger is a 9mm automatic handgun with a parabellum action
by Jerrold Mundis
The interceptor
by Barry N. Malzberg
Crowded lives
Clark Howard
Young Isaac
Jerome Charyn
Love in the lean years
by Donald E. Westlake
A Manhattan romance
by Joyce Carol Oates
In for a penny
by Lawrence Block
Two over easy
by Susan Isaacs
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