Allan Guthrie wrote:
Burnett's criminal-as-protagonist LITTLE CAESAR (1929) could
be called noir, and if Caldwell's THE BASTARD
(1929) and Wolfson's BODIES ARE DUST (1931) aren't noir, I'll
eat my underwear.
************* Little Caesar is pretty hardcore. There were
gangster novels before it, but it was one of the first to
tell the story from the gangster's perspective. Not the
best-written but a hell of a story and a great movie. Duncan
mentions Wolfson's book in his Noir Fiction. I used his book
as a reading list for quite a while, and was rarely
disappointed. I have been wanting to read Bodies are Dust for
quite a while. I need to get on that one as well as
Dave's.
miker
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