Stephen Crane
When up-and-coming American author Stephen Crane died of tuberculosis at the tragically young age of 28, he left behind an uncompleted manuscript. Several years later, Canadian author Robert Barr completed the manuscript, although scholars are unsure how much writing each author contributed to the published version of the novel, a multi-generational family epic that begins in Ireland.
This anthology spans more than a century of noir fiction set in the heart of the Big Apple—“17 sure winners” from Edith Wharton, Donald Westlake, and more (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
The island of Manhattan has been a breeding ground of crime, longing, and discontent since its earliest days as a city—and a natural setting for noir fiction since the genre was invented. And from Harlem to Greenwich
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