CHICAGO NOIR
edited by Neal Pollack
252 pages, a trade paperback original, $14.95
Brand new stories by: Neal Pollack, Achy Obejas, Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski, Adam Langer, Joe Meno, Peter Orner, Kevin Guilfoile, Bayo Ojikutu, Jeff Allen, Luciano Guerriero, Claire Zulkey, Andrew Ervin, M.K. Meyers, Todd Dills, C.J. Sullivan, Daniel Buckman, Amy Sayre-Roberts, and Jim Arndorfer.
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Table of Contents
COVER PAGE
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT PAGE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART I: THE INSIDE JOB
EOIN COLFER: Taking on PJ
KEN BRUEN: Black Stuff
PAT MULLAN: Tribunal
PART II: THE MANHATTAN CONNECTION
REED FARREL COLEMAN: Portrait of the Killer As a Young Man
JIM FUSILLI: The Ghost of Rory Gallagher
JASON STARR: Lost in Dublin
CHARLIE STELLA: Tainted Goods
PART III: HEART OF THE OLD COUNTRY
RAY BANKS: Wrong ’Em, Boyo
OLEN STEINHAUER: The Piss-Stained Czech
JOHN RICKARDS: Wish
KEVIN WIGNALL: The Death of Jeffers
PART IV: NEW WORLD NOIR
LAURA LIPPMAN: The Honor Bar
JAMES O. BORN: Tourist Trade
SARAH WEINMAN: Hen Night
GARY PHILLIPS: The Man for the Job
PATRICK J. LAMBE: The New Prosperity
DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI: Lonely and Gone
CRAIG MCDONALD: Rope-A-Dope
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