SUMMARY: WHETHER ITS DOUBLE INDEMNITY, KISS ME DEADLY, OR THE BIG SLEEP, ROAM A SCREEN WORLD OF DARK AND BROODING ELEGANCE WITH THIS ESSENTIAL HANDBOOK TO FILM NOIR. FROM PRIVATE EYES AND PERFECT... more
SUMMARY:Into the Dark (Turner Classic Movies) The Hidden World of Film Noir, 1941-1950 by Mark A. Vieira. The cinematic art of film noir-the dark, fascinating American movie genre that started in the... more
SUMMARY:The first fully annotated edition of Raymond Chandlers 1939 classic The Big Sleep, with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem, features hundreds of illuminating notes and images alongside the... more
SUMMARY:In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy... more
SUMMARY:A one-time detective and master of deft understatement, Dashiell Hammett virtually invented the hardboiled crime novel. This classic work of detective fiction combines an airtight plot,... more
SUMMARY:The 75th anniversary of THE MALTESE FALCON, one of the most beloved and influential crime novels of all time, will see a number of events aimed at bringing increased attention to the works of... more
SUMMARY:In The Lady in the Lake, hardboiled crime fiction master Raymond Chandler brings us the story of a couple of missing wivesone a rich man's and one a poor man'swho have become the objects of... more