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“this Entry, With Its High-quality Stories From Such Genre Masters As Raymond Chandler And James M. Cain, Outshines The Typical All-original Anthology.”—publishers Weekly In Akashic Books’s Acclaimed Series Of Original Noir Anthologies, Each Book Comprises All New Stories, Each One Set In A Distinct Neighborhood Or Location Within The Respective City. This Collection Of Classic Stories—the Sequel To The Award-winning, Bestselling Los Angeles Noir—“reaffirm[s] That The Shadows Cast By The Southland’s Sun, And Its Gloomy Ocean Fog, Have Proved Some Of Noir’s Most Fertile Territory” (los Angeles Times). This Anthology Features Stories By Raymond Chandler, Paul Cain, James Ellroy, Leigh Brackett, James M. Cain, Chester Himes, Ross Macdonald, Walter Mosley, Naomi Hirahara, Margaret Millar, Joseph Hansen, William Campbell Gault, Jervey Tervalon, Kate Braverman, And Yxta Maya Murray. “if You Love Either Mysteries Or Tales About Our Corner Of The World, Pick Up Noir 2 . . . Hey, The Concept Of ‘noir’—dark, Steamy Mystery Stories—was Invented Here.”—los Angeles Daily News Launched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller BROOKLYN NOIR, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Classic stories by: Paul Cain, James Ellroy, Leigh Brackett, James M. Cain, Chester Himes, Ross MacDonald, Walter Mosley, Naomi Hirahara, Margaret Millar, Joseph Hansen, William Campbell Gault, Jervey Tervalon, Kate Braverman, and Yxta Maya Murray. From Hollywood starlets to downtown taxi dancers, from Central Avenue speakeasies to clapboard Venice Beach shacks to Depression-era hobos riding the rails, this volume brings you the masters of the genre penning tales of love, lust, and loss in the City of Angels. Some, like James M. Cain, are literary lions. Others, like screenwriters Paul Cain and Leigh Brackett, whose hard-boiled prose shoots like bullets from a bootlegger's gun, have fallen into undeserved obscurity. What they share is a fascination for the city's dark side, its seedy underbelly of gangsters, starlets, crooked cops, and ordinary folk caught up in Tinseltown's treacherous undertow. Los Angeles isn't only the birthplace of noir, it's the most alluring femme fatale imaginable, dangling glittering wealth and reinvention, sugar-white beaches and palm-front nights. But the writers in this collection, many of whom came west in the 1930s and '40s to toil in Hollywoods Dream Factories, saw how quickly it could all fade into nightmare From Hollywood Starlets To Downtown Taxi Dancers, And From Central Avenue Speakeasies To Clapboard Venice Beach Shacks To Depression-era Hobos Riding The Rails, This Volume Brings You The Masters Of The Genre Penning Tales Of Love, Lust, And Loss In The City Of Angels. Includes Classic Stories By: Raymond Chandler, Paul Cain, James Ellroy, Leigh Brackett, James M. Cain, Chester Himes, Ross Macdonald, Walter Mosley, Naomi Hirahara, Margaret Millar, Joseph Hansen, William Campbell Gault, Jervey Tervalon, Kate Braverman, And Yxta Maya Murray. Editor Denise Hamilton Is The Author Of The Eve Diamond Series And The Editor Of Los Angeles Noir. Her Latest Novel, Los Angeles Times Bestseller The Last Embrace, Has Been Compared To Works By James Ellroy And Raymond Chandler. She Lives In Los Angeles. I'll Be Waiting / Raymond Chandler -- Murder In Blue / Paul Cain -- I Feel Bad Killing You / Leigh Brackett -- Dead Man / James M. Cain -- The Night's For Cryin' / Chester Himes -- Find The Woman / Ross Macdonald -- The Chirashi Covenant / Naomi Hirahara -- High Darktown / James Ellroy -- The People Across The Canyon / Margaret Millar -- Surf / Joseph Hansen -- The Kerman Kill / William Campbell Gault -- Crimson Shadow / Walter Mosley -- Rika / Jervey Tervalon -- Lucía / Yxta Maya Murray -- Tall Tales From The Mekong Delta / Kate Braverman. Edited By Denise Hamilton.