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Manhattan Noir

Edited by: Lawrence Block

Mystery writing titan Lawrence Block takes a bite into Manhattan crime.

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Description

Launched by 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.

Brand new crime fiction stories from: Jeffery Deaver, Lawrence Block, Charles Ardai, Carol Lea Benjamin, Thomas H. Cook, Jim Fusilli, Robert Knightly, John Lutz, Liz Martínez, Maan Meyers, Martin Meyers, S.J. Rozan, Justin Scott, C.J. Sullivan, and Xu Xi.

From the introduction by Lawrence Block:

“Readers of Brooklyn Noir will recall that its contents were labeled by neighborhood—Bay Ridge, Canarsie, Greenpoint, etc. We have chosen the same principle here, and the book’s contents do a good job of covering the island, from C.J. Sullivan’s Inwood and Charles Ardai’s Upper East Side, to Justin Scott’s Chelsea and Carol Lea Benjamin’s Greenwich Village. The range in mood and literary style is at least as great; noir can be funny, it can stretch to include magic realism, it can be ample or stark, told in the past or present tense, and in the first or third person. I wouldn’t presume to define noir—if we could define it, we wouldn’t need to use a French word for it—but it seems to me that it’s more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.”

Table of Contents

Introduction

“The Good Samaritan” by Charles Ardai (Midtown)
“The Last Supper” by Carol Lea Benjamin (Greenwich Village)
“If You Can’t Stand the Heat” by Lawrence Block (Clinton)
“Rain” by Thomas H. Cook (Battery Park)
“A Nice Place to Visit” by Jeffery Deaver (Hell’s Kitchen)
“The Next Best Thing” by Jim Fusilli (George Washington Bridge)
“Take the Man’s Pay” by Robert Knightly (Garment District)
“The Laundry Room” by John Lutz (Upper West Side)
“Freddie Prinze Is My Guardian Angel” by Liz Martínez (Washington Heights)
“The Organ Grinder” by Maan Meyers (Lower East Side)
“Why Do They Have to Hit?” by Martin Meyers (Yorkville)
“Building” by S.J. Rozan (Harlem)
“The Most Beautiful Apartment in New York” by Justin Scott (Chelsea)
“The Last Round” by C.J. Sullivan (Inwood)
“Crying with Audrey Hepburn” by Xu Xi (Times Square)

• Subjects: Mysteries & Crime, Noir Series
• Tags: C.J. Sullivan, Carol Lea Benjamin, Charles Ardai, Jeffery Deaver, Jim Fusilli, John Lutz, Justin Scott, Lawrence Block, Liz Martinez, Maan Meyers, Manhattan, Martin Meyers, New York City, Noir Series, Robert Knightly, S.J. Rozan, Thomas H. Cook, Xu Xi

Extras

• Excerpt from “If You Can’t Stand The Heat” by Lawrence Block, from Manhattan Noir