Lone Star noir
By: edited by Bobby Byrd & John William Byrd
Series: Akashic noir series
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781936070640
Subjects: American Noir fiction; Fiction
Description: An anthology of high-suspense, short noir mysteries is set in multicultural Texas regions and includes contributions by such established genre authors as James Crumbley, Joe R. Landsdale, and Claudia Smith.
Table of contents: title: Phelan's first case  -- Lisa Sandlin; title: Catgirl  -- Claudia Smith; title: Who stole my monkey?  -- David Corbett & Luis Alberto Urrea; title: Six dead cabbies  -- Tim Tingle; title: Luck  -- James Crumley; title: Preacher's kid  -- Jessica Powers; title: Six-finger Jack  -- Joe R. Lansdale; title: Duckweed  -- George Weir; title: Cherry Coke  -- Milton T. Burton; title: Montgomery Clift  -- Sarah Cortez; title: Moral hazard  -- Jesse Sublett; title: Bottomed out  -- Dean James; title: Crank  -- Ito Romo; title: The dead man's wife -- Bobby Byrd.