by Joe Meno
MARRAKECH NOIR (MOROCCO), edited by YASSIN ADNAN
MEMPHIS NOIR, edited by LAUREEN P. CANTWELL & LEONARD GILL
MISSISSIPPI NOIR, edited by TOM FRANKLIN
MONTREAL NOIR (CANADA), edited by John McFetridge & Jacques Filippi
NEW ORLEANS NOIR: THE CLASSICS edited by JULIE SMITH
RIO NOIR, (BRAZIL) edited by TONY BELLOTTO
SAN JUAN NOIR, (PUERTO RICO) edited by MAYRA SANTOS-FEBRES
SÃO PAULO NOIR, (BRAZIL) edited by TONY BELLOTTO
ST. LOUIS NOIR, edited by SCOTT PHILLIPS
STOCKHOLM NOIR (SWEDEN), edited by NATHAN LARSON & CARL-MICHAEL EDENBORG
TRINIDAD NOIR 2: THE CLASSICS edited by EARL LOVELACE & ROBERT ANTONI
ZAGREB NOIR (CROATIA), edited by IVAN SRSEN
NOIR SERIES AWARDS, PRIZES & HONORS
Following is a list-in-progress of the various awards, prizes, and honors that Akashic Noir Series stories have either won or been short-listed for.
Boston Noir
Edgar Award Finalists 2010
Dennis Lehane, “Animal Rescue”
Dana Cameron, “Femme Sole”
Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2010
John Dufresne, “The Cross-Eyed Bear”
Dennis Lehane, “Animal Rescue”
Shamus Award Finalist 2010
Brendan DuBois, “The Dark Island”
Anthony Award Finalists 2010
Dennis Lehane, “Animal Rescue”
Dana Cameron, “Femme Sole”
Macavity Award Finalist 2010
Dana Cameron, “Femme Sole”
Agatha Award Finalist 2009
Dana Cameron, “Femme Sole”
Bronx Noir
Winner, New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association
Book of the Year Award, Special Category 2008
Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2008
S.J. Rozan, “Hothouse”
Brooklyn Noir
Edgar Award Finalist 2005
Pete Hamill, “The Book Signing”
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award Winner 2005
Thomas Morrissey, “Can’t Catch Me”
Shamus Award Winner 2005
Pearl Abraham, “Hasidic Noir”
Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2005
Tim McLoughlin, “When All This Was Bay Ridge”
Lou Manfredo, “Case Closed”
Anthony Award Finalist 2005
Arthur Nersesian, “Hunter/Trapper”
Pushcart Prize Finalist 2005
Ellen Miller, “Practicing”
DC Noir
Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2007
Robert Andrews, “Solomon’s Alley”
Detroit Noir
Shamus Award Finalist 2008
Loren D. Estleman, “Kill the Cat”
Kansas City Noir
Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2013
Nancy Pickard, “Lightbulb”
Las Vegas Noir
Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2009
David Corbett, “Pretty Little Parasite”
Vu Tran, “This or Any Desert”
Lone Star Noir
Shamus Award Finalist 2011
Lisa Sandlin, “Phelan’s First Case”
Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2011
David Corbett & Luis Alberto Urrea, “Who Stole My Monkey?”
Long Island Noir
Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2013
Nick Mamatas, “The Shiny Car in the Night”
Los Angeles Noir
Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Winner 2007
Edgar Award Winner 2008
Susan Straight, “The Golden Gopher”
Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2008
Michael Connelly, “Mulholland Dive”
Robert Ferrigno, “The Hour When the Ship Comes In”
Manhattan Noir
Edgar Award Finalists 2007
S.J. Rozan, “Building”
Thomas H. Cook, “Rain”
Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2007
Robert Knightly, “Take the Man’s Pay”
Miami Noir
Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2007
John Bond, “T-bird”
New Jersey Noir
Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2012
Lou Manfredo, “Soul Anatomy”
New Orleans Noir
Shamus Award Finalist 2008
James Nolan, “Open Mike”
Paris Noir
Edgar Award Finalist 2009
Dominique Mainard, “La Vie en Rose”
Philadelphia Noir
Macavity Award Finalist 2011
Keith Gilman, “Devil’s Pocket”
Phoenix Noir
Edgar Award Winner 2010
Luis Alberto Urrea, “Amapola”
Anthony Award Finalist 2010
Luis Alberto Urrea, “Amapola”
Macavity Award Finalist 2010
Luis Alberto Urrea, “Amapola”
Shamus Award Finalist 2010
Gary Phillips, “Blazin’ on Broadway”
Queens Noir
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award Winner 2009
Joe Guglielmelli, “Buckner’s Error”
San Diego Noir
Southern California Independent Booksellers Association
Award Finalist 2011
Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2012
T. Jefferson Parker, “Vic Primeval”
San Francisco Noir
Macavity Award Finalist 2006
David Corbett, “It Can Happen”
Staten Island Noir
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award Winner 2013
Patricia Smith, “When They Are Done with Us”
Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2013
Patricia Smith, “When They Are Done with Us”
Toronto Noir
Arthur Ellis Award Winner 2009
Pasha Malla, “Filmsong”
Arthur Ellis Award Finalist 2009
Peter Robinson, “Walking the Dog”
Twin Cities Noir
Shamus Award Finalist 2007
Bruce Rubenstein, “Smoke Got in My Eyes”
Venice Noir
Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2013
Emily St. John Mandel, “Drifter”
Wall Street Noir
Derringer Award Finalist 2008
Twist Phelan, “A Trader’s Lot”
Included in The Best American Mystery Stories 2008
Stephen Rhodes, “At the Top of His Game”
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Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the stories in this anthology. Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the stories in this anthology. “30 Seconds of Darkness” by Harry Stephen Keeler was originally published in Black Cat (May 1916); “Brothers” by Sherwood Anderson was originally published in The Triumph of the Egg (New York: B.W. Huebsch, Inc., 1921); “Kaddish for the Kid” by Max Allan Collins was originally published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (June 1998), copyright © 1998 by Max Allan Collins; “The Man Who Went to Chicago” (excerpt) by Richard Wright was originally published in an earlier form as “Early Days in Chicago” in Cross Section 1945: A Collection of New American Writing, ed. Edwin Seaver (New York: L.B. Fischer, 1945), print rights licensed here from Eight Men by Richard Wright, pp. 229–42, copyright © 1940, 1961 by Richard Wright, renewed © by Ellen Wright, introduction copyright © 1996 by Paul Gilroy, reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers; e-book rights for “The Man Who Went to Chicago” licensed here from Eight Men, copyright © 1940, 1960 by Richard Wright, © 1989 by Ellen Wright, reprinted by permission of John Hawkins & Associates, Inc., and the Estate of Richard Wright; “He Swung and He Missed” by Nelson Algren was originally published in the American Mercury (July 1942), copyright © 1942 by Nelson Algren, licensed here from The Neon Wilderness (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2002); “I’ll Cut Your Throat Again, Kathleen” by Fredric Brown was originally published in Mystery Book magazine (Winter 1948), copyright © 1948 by Fredric Brown, licensed here from Barry N. Malzberg; The Price of Salt (excerpt) by Patricia Highsmith, writing as Claire Morgan, was originally published in 1952 (New York: Coward-McCann), licensed here from The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, copyright © 1984 by Claire Morgan, copyright © 1991 by Patricia Highsmith, copyright © 1990 by Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich, used by permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.; “The Starving Dogs of Little Croatia” by Barry Gifford was originally published online by Chicagoist (December 13, 2009), copyright © 2009 by Barry Gifford, licensed here from The Roy Stories (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2013); “Blue Note” by Stuart M. Kaminsky was originally published in Chicago Blues, ed. Libby Fischer Hellmann (Madison, WI: Bleak House Books, 2007), copyright © 2007 by Stuart M. Kaminsky; “The Whole World Is Watching” by Libby Fischer Hellmann was originally published in Sisters on the Case: Celebrating Twenty Years of Sisters in Crime, ed. Sara Paretsky (New York: New American Library, 2007), copyright © 2007 by Libby Fischer Hellmann; “Skin Deep” by Sara Paretsky was originally published in New Black Mask No. 8, eds. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987), copyright © 1986 by Sara Paretsky; “Death and the Point Spread” by Percy Spurlark Parker was originally published in Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes: Black Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction of the 20th Century, ed. Paula L. Woods (New York: Doubleday, 1995), copyright © 1995 by Percy Spurlark Parker; “One Holy Night” by Sandra Cisneros was originally published in the Village Voice Literary Supplement, issue 69 (November 1, 1988), licensed here from Woman Hollering Creek, copyright © 1991 by Sandra Cisneros, published by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and originally in hardcover by Random House, Inc., by permission of Susan Bergholz Literary Services, New York, NY, and Lamy, NM, all rights reserved; “The Thirtieth Amendment” by Hugh Holton was originally published in Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes: Black Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction of the 20th Century, ed. Paula L. Woods (New York: Doubleday, 1995), copyright © 1995 by Hugh Holton; “We Didn’t” by Stuart Dybek was originally published in Antaeus (Spring 1993), print rights licensed here from I Sailed with Magellan, copyright © 2003 by Stuart Dybek, reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC; e-book and audio rights for “We Didn’t” licensed from I Sailed with Magellan, copyright © 2004 by Stuart Dybek, used by permission of ICM, all rights reserved.
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