The Mysterious Romance of Murder : : Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir / / David Lehman.
From Sherlock Holmes to Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles to Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, Harry Lime to Gilda, Madeleine Elster, and other femmes fatales,—crime and crime-solving in fiction and film captivate us. Why do we keep going back to Agatha Christie's ingenious puzzles and Raymond Chan...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The Mysterious Romance of Murder
- Part I. Killer Style
- 1. Cracking Wise
- 2. Paradise of the Damned: Eighteen Notes on Noir
- 3. Poetry Noir
- 4. Five Noir Poems
- Part II. The Elements of Crime
- 5. Here’s to Crime!
- 6. The Last Cigarette
- 7. Among My Souvenirs
- Part III. Auteurs
- 8. The Great British Spymasters
- 9. The Limits of Logic: Trent’s Last Case
- 10. Dashiell Hammett’s Priceless Patter
- 11. Paperclip (Raymond Chandler)
- 12. “Grim Grin” (Graham Greene)
- 13. Rex Stout: The Emperor of Couronne de Canard
- 14. Ida Lupino: The First Lady of Noir
- 15. Black Friday (David Goodis)
- 16. Orange Noir (Charles Willeford)
- 17. Ed McBain: The Man from Isola
- 18. Hitchcock’s America
- Part IV. Dreams That Money Can Buy
- 19. Straight Down the Line: Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity (1944)
- 20. Strangers and Mirrors: Orson Welles’s The Stranger (1946) and The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
- 21. An Exchange of Bullets in Belfast: Carol Reed’s Odd Man Out (1947)
- 22. Blind Accidents: John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
- 23. Epitaph for a Genre: Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing (1956)
- 24. Shadow of Evil: Robert Mitchum Cape Fear (1962)
- 25. A Reluctant Spy’s Conversion: William Holden in The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
- 26. Gangsters in Love: Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
- 27. Rogues’ Gallery
- 28 Why Not New York?
- Part V. The Imp of the Perverse
- 29 Three Astrological Profiles
- Author’s Note
- Authors and Books Index
- Film and Television Index