DATE: 2012-10-14
PUBLISHER: akashic books
GENRE: Fiction
AUTHOR: Laura Lippman
FORMAT: EPUB
PROTECTION: DRM
URL: http://is.gd/ZxB0KP
LANGUAGE: English
ISBN: 978-1-936-07037-4
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.
From the introduction by Laura Lippman:
"To live in Baltimore--Bulletmore, Murderland . . . is to be aware of
killing; we have not enjoyed the sharp declines in homicide rates achieved
by cities such as Boston and New York. We remain steadfastly in the top
five, per capita, year in and year out. Statistically, two people died
while I was working on this foreword . . . Baltimore also has an odd
geographic distinction. It is one of only two major U.S. cities that lies
in no county. (St. Louis is the other.) Landlocked on every side but one,
which is water, it cannot expand or annex. Squeezed this way, it is a
perfect setting for noir, which depends on an almost Darwinian desperation
among its players."

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