title: The Big Book of Noir
author: Lee Server
description: <b>Penzler Pick, December 1999</b>: It took the French, with their word for "dark," to give an identity to an important mystery sub-genre. Something more than hard-boiled, <i>noir</i>--whether in film, book, or television--must also speak to a sense of existential nihilism, where betrayal is how romance best expresses itself and fear is only another name for foreplay. But while we all now know what <i>noir</i> is, when it was starting to coalesce as a coherent style back in the 1940s and early 1950s, it was more spontaneous, less self-conscious. It was wholly representative of a world then at war, not just with visible enemies, but with unseen ones as well.
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  # One Last Time
  
  
  ## A loveless brothers novel
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Roxie Noir
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2020 by Roxie Noir
  
  
  
  
  
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  All rights reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
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  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or
  mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without
  written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in
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  In other words: please don’t pirate this book. Were you raised by wolves?
  
  
  
  
  
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  Cover: Coverlüv
  
  
  Photographer: Michelle Lancaster
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0003_split_000.html#2RHM0-22187c9b5a1c418cb043cbd81878547a)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0004_split_000.html#3Q280-22187c9b5a1c418cb043cbd81878547a)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 3](part0005_split_000.html#4OIQ0-22187c9b5a1c418cb043cbd81878547a)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 4](part0006_split_000.html#5N3C0-22187c9b5a1c418cb043cbd81878547a)
  
  
  