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 introduction to The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, “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 man and the wrong woman in perfect misalliance. It’s the nightmare of flawed souls wi…