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Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s
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Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s (collective work) (edit title/settings)

The Killer Inside Me / The Talented Mr. Ripley / Pick-up / Down There / The Real Cool Killers

by Robert Polito (Editor) (edit contributors)

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Critically acclaimed crime novels of the 1950s include Pick-Up, The Killer Inside Me, Down There, The Real Cool Killers, and The Talented Mr. Ripley, in this second in a two-volume set."

Books in This Collection

  1. The Killer Inside Me

    The Killer Inside Me

    by Jim Thompson (Author)

    In a small town in Texas there is a sheriff's deputy named Lou Ford, a man so dull that he lives in cliches, so good-natured that he doesn't even lay a finger on the drunks who come into his custody. But then, that would be too easy, for Lou's...

  2. The Talented Mr. Ripley

    The Talented Mr. Ripley

    by Patricia Highsmith (Author)

    Like a hero in a latter-day Henry James novel, Tom Ripley travels to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal young American back to his wealthy father. But Ripley finds himself very fond of Dickie Greenleaf. He wants to be like him--exactly...

  3. Pick-Up

    Pick-Up

    by Charles Willeford (Author)

    In Pick-Up , Charles Willeford has created a work of psychological suspense that is at once poignant, terrifying, and utterly authentic in its depcition of alcoholic desire and destruction.

  4. Shoot the Piano Player

    Shoot the Piano Player

    or, Down There

    by David Goodis (Author)

    Once upon a time Eddie played conert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs out honky-tonk for drunks in a dive in Philadelphia. But then two people walk into Eddie's life--the first promising Eddie a future, the other...

  5. The Real Cool Killers

    The Real Cool Killers

    by Chester B. Himes (Author)

    Many people had reasons for killing Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls. But there are complications--like a drug addict, a disappearing suspect, and the fact that Coffin Ed's daughter is up to...

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I'D FINISHED my pie and was having a second cup of coffee when I saw him.

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This is book 95 of 36 in Library of America. (edition-based publisher list)

Preceded by Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s, and followed by Wallace Stevens.

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  1. Robert Polito (Editor)

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  1. Jim Thompson (Contributor)

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