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# Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s: The Killer Inside Me / The Talented Mr. Ripley / Pick-up / Down There / The Real Cool Killers (Library of America)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Beautiful copy of this classic book
  

*by M***A on Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2021*

Seller described this used book as "like new" and in fact it is more like 100% New. Very nice.

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    Pick Up this Volume if only for "Pick-Up"
  

*by M***O on Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2017*

I admit, I haven't gotten through all of the stories yet. I bought it after seeing the film version of "The Killer Inside Me", which I found disturbing and creepy. After reading the paper version, to which the film is very faithful, I read Highsmith's novel - and then watched the film version of that (not quite as faithful to the novel. Both of these stories were good, but "Pick-Up" is the standout so far. Beyond depressing, nihilistic, existential - if you've ever felt wayyy down, the depiction of hopelessness in Willeford's novel will feel eerie and almost embarrassingly on-target, exposing the raw, pulpy edges of self pity and sheer, undiluted despondence so thick and dark there is no remedy for it. And, no matter how clever the plots or characters in the first two novels, there are no "wow" plot twist moments as there is at the end of "Pick-Up" - what many see as a gimmick, but which was one of the few really surprising (and though the novel works without it, enlightening) turns in anything I've read in many a moon.

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    Dark Novels from the 1950's
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2008*

The Library of America has several interesting compilations of Noir novels.  I had read Himes' Real Cool Killers separately and also have just watched his "Cotton Comes to Harlem" from the novel, with the same lead detectives.  Himes is almost a forgotten author, typical of the bigotry of the Jim Crow era, in that he wasn't appreciated in the US, but received major prizes in France, where he lived out his life.The Killer Inside Me is about a despicable deputy in a small TX town, a character one detests but nevertheless can't ignore.  The Talented Mr. Ripley was a movie, and, again, presents an evil young man in his downward spiral.  I'm reading it now, having seen a film of it years ago.  Two other novels in the volume I've yet to start.These are well bound books with a huge amount of good content for the money.  I bought another volume of similar works from the 1930's and 1940's, and one of Dashiell Hammett works at the sme time.  Many of these tales have become classic films.  I look forward to much pleasant reading from the group.

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