New Orleans Noir

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Julie Smith
Akashic Books, 2007 - Fiction - 281 pages

"New Orleans Noir explores the dark corners of our city in eighteen stories, set both pre- and post-Katrina . . . In Julie Smith, Temple found a perfect editor for the New Orleans volume, for she is one who knows and loves the city and its writers and knows how to bring out the best in both . . . It's harrowing reading, to be sure, but it's pure page-turning pleasure, too." --Times-Picayune

Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each volume comprises stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city.

Brand-new stories by: Ace Atkins, Laura Lippman, Patty Friedmann, Barbara Hambly, Tim McLoughlin, Olympia Vernon, David Fulmer, Jervey Tervalon, James Nolan, Kalamu ya Salaam, Maureen Tan, Thomas Adcock, Jeri Cain Rossi, Christine Wiltz, Greg Herren, Julie Smith, Eric Overmyer, and Ted O'Brien.

From inside the book

 

Contents

Introduction
13
PATTY FRIEDMANN Uptown
31
OLYMPIA VERNON University District
51
Copyright

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New Orleans Noir
Julie Smith
Limited preview - 2007
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Ted O'Brien,Patty Friedmann,Tim McLoughlin
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About the author (2007)

Mystery author Julie Smith was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1944. She graduated from the University of Mississippi with a degree in journalism. After graduation, she moved to New Orleans and wrote features for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. After a year, she moved to San Francisco and got a job at the San Francisco Chronicle. Fourteen years later, she left to form a freelance writing firm called Invisible Ink with two other women. In 1982, her first novel, Death Turns a Trick, was published. Since becoming a full-time author, she has written over twenty novels including the ones in the Rebecca Schwartz Mystery series, the Paul McDonald Mystery series, the Skip Langdon Mystery series, and the Talba Wallis series. Her novel, New Orleans Mourning, won the 1991 Edgar Allen Poe Award for best novel.

Bibliographic information

TitleNew Orleans Noir
Volume 0 of Akashic noir series
EditorJulie Smith
Editionillustrated
PublisherAkashic Books, 2007
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized29 May 2008
ISBN1933354240, 9781933354248
Length281 pages
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Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors)
Fiction / City Life
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
Travel / United States / South / West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX)
  
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