TY - BOOK AU - Cain,James M. TI - Crime novels: American noir of the 1930s and 40s SN - 9781883011468 (alk. paper) U1 - 813 POL-C PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - Library of America, Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA KW - Detective and mystery stories, American KW - American fiction KW - Noir fiction, American KW - Detective and mystery stories N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 983-990); 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 ER -