Nice and Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction

by Richard B. Schwartz

Book Overview

Owners of mystery bookshops will tell you that there are several sorts of buyers: those who purchase on impulse or whim; genre addicts who buy paperbacks by the week and by the armful; and those who have caught up on canonical texts and regularly buy new novels by select authors in hardcover. Richard B. Schwartz belongs in the last group, with his own list of approximately seventy favorite writers. Nice and Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826213936
• ISBN13: 9780826213938
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5