Crime novels : American noir of the 1930s and 40s.
Other Titles: Postman always rings twice.
Publisher: New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trsde in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA, c1997.
ISBN: 1883011469 (alk. paper)
Description: 990 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Series: Library of America ; 94
Subject: Detective and mystery stories, American.
American fiction 20th century.
Crime Fiction.
Contents: The postman always rings twice / James M. Cain -- They shoot horses, don't they / Horace McCoy -- Thieves like us / Edward Anderson -- The big clock / Kenneth Fearing -- Nightmare alley / William Lindsay Gresham -- I married a dead man / Cornell Woolrich.