From one of our finest cultural historians, The Noir Forties is a vivid reexamination of America's postwar period, that "age of anxiety" characterized by the di
COEURS NOIRS is a collection of FILM NOIR newsprint ads from the 1940's & 1950's. Over 400 films are presented here, pulled from newspapers from all over the Un
A collection of quotables from those gritty movies from the mid-forties to the mid-fifties featuring losers and drifters, dreamers and grifters, immortalized by
“The most important collection of crime fiction ever published in the United States.” — Ed Gorman Evolving out of the terse and violent style of the pulp