--- JIM DOHERTY <
jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 4. Do you identify the beginning of the noir
fiction
> genre with a particular novel or story? If yes,
what
> and why?
>
> Either "Death Sits in the Dentist's Chair"
by
> Cornell
> Woolrich because it's the first crime story
by
> Cornell
> Woolrich, or THIS MAN IS DANGEROUS by Peter
Cheyney,
> because it was the first book published under
the
> Serie Noire logo.
>
Serie Noire didn't start publishing until 1945 and all of
their offerings were reprints. Woolrich's Manhattan Love Song
was published in 1932 almost a dozen years previous. I'm not
trying to be difficult here, just curious since I have no
idea when the form began in print but it would almost have to
be just around the beginnings of the depression.
William
Essays and Ramblings
<http://www.williamahearn.com>
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