Akashic Noir Miami Noir: The Classics, (Paperback)

from diana.hauser

MIAMI NOIR: THE CLASSICS edited by Les Standiford, is the newest title in Akashic Books celebrated Noir series. This short story anthology series was launched in 2004 by Akashic Books with BROOKLYN NOIR and continues with over 100 titles to its credit. Each title represents a city, region or coun...

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This is the best short story collection to come along in a long time.

from BradKautz

With Miami Noir: The Classics editor Les Standiford hits a home run, and perhaps a grand slam, in Akashic Books Noir Series. He has gathered stories set in the Miami area, written between 1925 and 2006, into a compelling collection, a volume I found hard to set down once I had begun. Marjory Ston...

from DGRachel

Out 11/17, this is excellent entry in the Akashic Noir series. Miami Noir: The Classics contains a variety of stories written between 1925 and 2006, so you get a really good sense of Miami over the last 100 years. I wasn't a fan of the two excerpts for reasons I'll note below, but most of the oth...

from bayleaf

Miami Noir The Classics has made it on to my list of favorite Akashic noir anthologies. Its editor, Les Standiford, has included just the right mix of the old and the newish, from noir's earliest beginnings up to the early 21st century with views of a city much changed in population makeup, a cit...