Memphis Noir, Paperback

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``A remarkable picture of contemporary Memphis emerges in this Akashic noir volume...Something for everyone.``--``Publishers Weekly`` ````Memphis Noir`` covers train cars and Beale Street, hoodoo and segregation, Nathan Bedford Forrest and, of course, Graceland, and even includes a graphic novella.``--``Memphis Flyer`` ``A collection of stories celebrating the underbelly of the city, its ghosts, and the characters that give Memphis its rich patina of blues.``--``Memphis Flyer,`` Event feature ````Memphis Noir,`` edited by Laureen P. Cantwell and Leonard Gill, captures the subtlety of the Memphis ethos, where blacks and whites, rich and poor, are intimately entwined. The collection--fifteen stories by some of the city's finest writers--bleeds the blues and calls down the dark powers that permeate this capital of the Delta.``--``The Commercial Appeal`` ``The new anthology ``Memphis Noir`` is replete with murders, ghosts, gangsters, a sharp-toothed baby, Boss Crump, and high water on the bluff.``--``Memphis Magazine`` ``Stories by some of the city's finest writers....This new collection is a boon for readers who love a good ghost story and a shiver in the night....The skill of the fifteen writers represented here is evident on every page of ``Memphis Noir,`` a testament to the cultural richness of the Bluff City.``--Chapter 16 ``Jealousy, lust and murder are common themes...there's not a badstory] in the bunch.``--Underrated Reads ``Voodoo, ghosts, guns, hatred, jealousy and greed play their part here. There is no place for weakness here.``--Journey of a Bookseller 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. Featuring brand-new stories by Richard J. Alley, David Wesley Williams, Dwight Fryer, Jamey Hatley, Adam Shaw, Penny Register-Shaw, Kaye George, Arthur Flowers, Suzanne Berube Rorhus, Ehi Ike, Lee Martin,