Los Angeles Noir 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Page

Introduction

PART I: KISS KISS BANG BANG

PAUL CAIN

Downtown

Murder in Blue

1933

LEIGH BRACKETT

Santa Monica

I Feel Bad Killing You

1944

JAMES M. CAIN

San Fernando

Dead Man

1936

CHESTER HIMES

South Los Angeles

The Night’s for Cryin’

1937

PART II: AFTER THE WAR

ROSS MACDONALD

Beverly Hills

Find the Woman

1946

NAOMI HIRAHARA

Terminal Island

The Chirashi Covenant

2007

JAMES ELLROY

West Adams

High Darktown

1986

PART III: KILLER VIEWS

MARGARET MILLAR

L.A. Canyon

The People Across the Canyon

1962

JOSEPH HANSEN

Venice

Surf

1976

WILLIAM CAMPBELL GAULT

Pacific Palisades

The Kerman Kill

1987

PART IV: MODERN CLASICS

WALTER MOSLEY

Watts

Crimson Shadow

1995

JERVEY TERVALON

Baldwin Hills

Rika

1994

YXTA MAYA MURRAY

Echo Park

Lucía

1997

KATE BRAVERMAN

Bel Air

Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta

1990

Acknowledgments

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