Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s (LOA #95): The Killer Inside Me / The Talented Mr. Ripley / Pick-Up / Down There / The Real Cool Killers

This adventurous two-volume collection presents a rich vein of modern American writing too often neglected in mainstream literary histories. Evolving out of the terse and violent hardboiled style of the pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over the decades into a varied and innovative body of writing. Tapping deep roots in the American literary imagination, the novels in this volume explore themes of crime, guilt, deception, obsessive passion, murder, and the disintegrating psyche. With vi...