Re: RARA-AVIS: Mafia Noir

From: E.Borgers ( webeurop@yahoo.fr)
Date: 13 Oct 2005


Mafia Noir is certainly not a rarity. Maybe it's the US mafia, as topic, which became out of fashion as it's not the top of organized crime anymore.

Fortunately (?) other countries are reviving the flame, like Russian mafia, Chinese mafia, Colombian mafia, Yakusas and more, all of which we found now heavy traces in contemporary noir.

Coming back to the classic mafia, do not forget the novels by Max Allan Collins, built around historical figures of the wise guys: there was the excellent: NEON MIRAGE- 1988 (about Bugsy Siegel's Las Vegas), TRUE DETECTIVE, THE MILLION-DOLLAR WOUND... all from his Nat Heller series.

Also some of the novels by E. Richard Johnson .

And there are much more.

E.Borgers HARD-BOILED MYSTERIES http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384

John Williams :

>Shane Stevens' Dead City. And, organised crime-wise, George V. Higgins'
>The Friends Of Eddie Coyle
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