Baltimore Noir
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I read a fair amount of crime novels, and lately I've been reading a bit about Baltimore, so I finally got around to picking this anthology of Baltimore-based crime fiction up. Editor (and popular crime novelist) Laura Lippman provides a quick and dirty rundown on Baltimore's literary claims to fame and why it makes for a good noir setting. (Although she errs in naming St. Louis and Baltimore as the only "major" U.S. cities not to lie in a county, Washington D.C. is a third.) In any event, she divides the sixteen stories into three roughly equal parts:
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