Baltimore Noir

Марсия Талли, Дэн Феспермен, Суджата Масси, Джим Фузилли, Чарли Стелла, Лаура Липман, Сара Вайнман, Роберт Уорд, Джек Блудис, Роб Хайасен, Рафаэль Альварес, Дэвид Саймон, Джозеф Уоллес, Тим Коки, Лиза Респерс Франс, Бен Нейхарт

Серия: Akashic Noir

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Brand-new stories by: David Simon, Laura Lippman, Tim Cockey, Rob Hiaasen, Robert Ward, Sujata Massey, Jack Bludis, Rafael Alvarez, Marcia Talley, Joseph Wallace, Lisa Respers France, Charlie Stella, Sarah Weinman, Dan Fesperman, Jim Fusilli, and Ben Neihart.

THE AKASHIC NOIR SERIES

I belong here,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote of Baltimore, “where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite. And I wouldn’t mind a bit if in a few years Zelda and I could snuggle up together under a stone in some old graveyard here. That is a really happy thought and not melancholy at all.”

Fitzgerald was far from the first or last writer to feel a kinship with this mid-Atlantic city, although not all would have worded their sentiments as he did. Given that it was his wife’s psychiatric problems that drew him here, Fitzgerald, who belongs more to St. Paul than to Baltimore, can be forgiven his cynical view.

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