The Best American Noir of the Century

A magisterial anthology of American noir writing in the 20th century by the best-selling author of the LA Quartet: The Black Dahlia. The Big Nowhere , LA Confidential and White Jazz. In his intoduction to The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, "e;noir is the most scrutinised offshoot of the hard-boiled school of fiction. It's the long drop off the short pier and the wrong ...