Miami Noir: The Classics
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The long-awaited sequel to 2006's best-selling Miami Noir highlights an outstanding tradition of legendary writers exploring the dark side of paradise.
"The 19 stories featured in the superb Miami Noir: The Classics are solidly entertaining and a thoughtful history about life, crime and punishment in South Florida."
--South Florida Sun-Sentinel
"Miami hasn’t been around for long, as cities go--just a little over a century. But it's been fertile ground for crime fiction almost from the beginning. The evidence is clear in Miami Noir: The Classics...[Standiford's] choices for the 19 stories in this volume are fascinating."
--Tampa Bay Times
"Miami has long trembled on a knife’s edge between paradise and underworld, retirement community and dark web, sunny metropolis and criminal clearinghouse. The 19 stories collected by local author Standiford in [Miami Noir: The Classics] speak to this singular dichotomy."
--Boca Mag, recommended by Mitch Kaplan
"Miami Noir: The Classics dares readers to explore a geography that may be both unfamiliar and unsettling...[The setting] proves as tangible as if you were there, muggy air rising off every page."
--Zyzzyva
"An exceptional treat for all dedicated fans of noir fiction."
--Midwest Book Review
"The 19 selections in this welcome reprint anthology in Akashic's noir series enshrine the dark side of Miami...This historical survey makes a fine case for Miami as a timeless setting for great crime fiction."
--Publishers Weekly
"A collection that shows how far a city can come and still maintain a strong noir tradition."
--Kirkus Reviews
"All these stories embedded within this historical survey, make a fine case for Miami as a timeless setting for great crime fiction."
--Exclusive Magazine
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each volume comprises stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city.
Featuring classic noir fiction from: Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Elmore Leonard, Lester Dent, Zora Neale Hurston, Brett Halliday, Damon Runyon, Edna Buchanan, James Carlos Blake, Douglas Fairbairn, Charles Willeford, T.J. MacGregor, Lynne Barrett, Les Standiford, Preston L. Allen, John Dufresne, Vicki Hendricks, Christine Kling, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, and David Beaty.
From the introduction by Les Standiford:
Despite the fact that Miami has in the past decade-plus added a downtown performing arts complex to outdo all but the Kennedy Center in DC, a jaw-dropping art museum by the Biscayne Bay, an exemplary science museum, the establishment of the world-renowned Art Basel festival on Miami Beach, and so much more...the operative literary form to portray Miami--the essential aria of the Magic City--is spun from threads of mystery and yearning and darkness...
When terrible things threaten in some ominous neighborhoods, in some tough cities, a reader of a story set in those locales might be forgiven for expecting the worst; but when calamity takes place against the backdrop of paradise, as we have here in Miami, the impact is all the greater.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Marjory Stoneman Douglas is considered by many to be the first lady of the Everglades. What others called a worthless swamp, she dubbed the “river of grass,” and she fought fiercely to protect and revive the Everglades in her lifetime. Her autobiography, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River, is the story of a strong-willed, determined woman who let nothing stand in the way of accomplishing her goals and living “my own life in my own way.” Everglades: River of Grass chronicles her involvement in Everglades affairs.
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Reviews for Miami Noir
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Like Miami? You'll love "Miami Noir," great stories of intrigue and craziness in a crazy place.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a pretty good book If you have some great stories like this one, you can publish it on Novel Star, just submit your story to hardy@novelstar.top or joye@novelstar.top