01898cam a2200313 i 4500 295862352 TxAuBib 20100106120000.0 050704s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2005925467 9781888451900 1888451904 TxAuBib rda D.C. noir [BOOK] / edited by George Pelecanos. DC noir. New York : Akashic, 2006. 308 pages : map ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Part I.D.C. uncovered -- The confidential informant / George Pelecanos -- First / Kenji Jasper -- Capital of the world / Jim Patton -- The names of the lost / Richard Currey -- Part II. Streets and Alleys -- East of the sun / Jennifer Howard -- Solomon's Alley / Robert Andrews -- The light and the dark / Robert Wisdom -- A.R.M. and the woman / Laura Lippman -- Part III. Cops and robbers -- Cold as ice / Quintin Peterson -- God don't like ugly / Lester Irby -- Coyote hunt / Ruben Castaneda -- Jeanette / Jim Beane -- Part IV. The Hill and the edge -- The bottom line / James Grady -- Stiffed / David Slater -- The messenger of Soulsville / Norman Kelley -- The dupe / Jim Fusilli. Mystery sensation Pelecanos pens the lead story and edits this groundbreaking collection of stories detailing the seedy underside of the nation's capital. This is not an anthology of ill-conceived and inauthentic political thrillers. Instead, pimps, whores, gangsters, and con-men run rampant in zones of this city that most never hear about. 20100106. Noir fiction, American. Washington (D.C) Fiction. Short stories. Mystery fiction. Pelecanos, George P, editor.