Geek obsession: Classic crime fiction Why it ... short-story collections of 1940s noir. An excellent recent one is The Black Lizard Big Book Of Pulps, an almost absurdly comprehensive (but ...

He’s the author of the Ivan Monk and Martha Chainey mystery series, edited the anthology ‘Orange County Noir’ and is on ... a pulp-era crime fighter that’s been licensed by Moonstone ...

This impressive anthology of pulp-era crime stories from veteran editor and publisher Penzler reveals not only tales with surprising staying power but also some of high literary quality.

How did film noir — a term for crime melodramas coined by a French critic in 1945 that wasn’t widely known in the US until the 1970s — become a major marketing tool for an ever-growing list ...

As mystery fiction expert Penzler notes in his concise overview of African-American crime writing at the start of this welcome anthology, despite the central element linking the 15 short stories ...

One of the best American films of the year, David Mackenzie’s “Hell or High Water” is a modern Western crime noir set in the Midland part of Texas, where times are hard and most people ...