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Seattle Noir
Paperback
Series: Akashic Noir
Mystery & ThrillerFiction Anthologies
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ISBN13: 9781933354804
Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
Published: Jun 1 2009
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.
Brand-new stories by: G. M. Ford, Skye Moody, R. Barri Flowers, Thomas P. Hopp, Patricia Harrington, Bharti Kirchner, Kathleen Alcalá, Simon Wood, Brian Thornton, Lou Kemp, Curt Colbert, Robert Lopresti, Paul S. Piper, and Stephan Magcosta.
From the introduction by Curt Colbert:
Early Seattle was a hardscrabble seaport filled with merchant sailors, longshoremen, lumberjacks, rowdy saloons, and a rough-and-tumble police force not immune to corruption and graft. Among the more notorious crimes in the city's early history was the case of Seattle Mayor Corliss P. Stone. A businessman and former member of the city council, Mayor Stone's term was cut short in 1873 when he got caught embezzling $15,000 from his firm, Stone & Burnett. He promptly fled to San Francisco with another man's wife . . .
By the 1950s, Seattle had added Boeing to its claim to fame, but was still a mostly blue-collar burg that was once described as an 'aesthetic dustbin' by Sir Thomas Beecham, a short-term conductor of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Present-Day Seattle has become a pricey, cosmopolitan center, home to Microsoft and legions of Starbucks latte lovers. The city is now famous as the birthplace of grunge music, and possesses a flourishing art, theater, and club scene that many would have thought improbable just a few decades ago. Yet some things never change--crime being one of them.
Seattle's evolution to high finance and high tech has provided even greater opportunity and reward to those who might be ethically, morally, or economically challenged (crooks, in other words) . . . This is Seattle Noir. Cozy up in your favorite easy chair and crack the book open. And be sure to turn up the lights--you'll need them for when it gets dark.
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