I don't consider all of the stories in the anthology noir,
but Spillane's is a great one, maybe the best in the
anthology.
I always liked Spillane. "I, the Jury" turned me onto crime
fiction when I read it as a kid. While I don't consider his
Mike Hammer books noir, there are noirish impulses in them,
and they probably fit under today's wider definition of noir.
"Tomorrow I Die" would fit under anyone's defintion of noir.
If you want to read a great noir story, definitely look it
up.
--Dave
>
> --- Dave Zeltserman <dz@...> wrote:
>
> > William Ahearn wrote:
> >
> > >> But Spillane was never and could never
be a noir
> > >> writer.
> >
> > Read Spillane's "Tomorrow I Die" in the Century
of
> > Noir anthology.
> >
> >
> Oh. So he turned out one story that someone
*thought*
> was noir? I'll go look it up but everytime I run
down
> this stuff all I find is an empty label. Of
course,
> since some people think hardboiled is noir then
it's
> OK since the book says noir on the cover. I
will
> really look it up . . .
>
> William
>
> Essays and Ramblings
> <http://www.williamahearn.com>
>
>
>
>
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