Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics

This anthology of classic noir set in NYC’s County of Kings features stories by Thomas Wolfe, Lawrence Block, Maggie Estep and more.On the heels of the award-winning bestseller Brooklyn Noir—a collection of all-new Brooklyn-based crime fiction—this second volume digs deeper into the criminal history of New York’s punchiest and most alluring borough. Brooklyn Noir 2 offers classic short stories by the authors who blazed the path for the success of the first volume. Each story is set in a distinct Brooklyn neighborhood and mixes masters of genre with some of the best literary fiction authors to ever set foot in the borough. These brilliant and chilling stories explore crime among Brooklyn’s Russian, Jamaican, Puerto Rican, Italian, and Irish, communities, among other enclaves in this diverse and distinctly crooked borough.
Brooklyn Noir 2 features entries by H.P. Lovecraft, Lawrence Block, Donald Westlake, Pete Hamill, Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead, Carolyn Wheat, Thomas Wolfe, Hubert Selby, Jr., Stanley Ellin, Gilbert Sorrentino, Maggie Estep, Salvatore La Puma, and Irwin Shaw.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Brooklyn Noir 2 is gritty nostalgia served with a side dish of modern noir, always insightful and colorful without apology―much like the borough itself.”
― Futures MYSTERY Anthology Magazine

“Murder. Mystery. Mayhem. Once again we visit the borough of Brooklyn by way of deftly authored stories by those who live and breathe it . . . Editor Tim McLoughlin handpicked a tome full of the best tales already told about the duplicitousness of both Brooklyn’s landscapes and inhabitants.”
― Tablet

“Here, McLoughlin mine reprints, allowing him to pay tribute to “all the great stories that had given me the idea for such a book in the first place” . . . Terrific appeal for Brooklynites.”
― Booklist

“Packed full of literary treats . . . The stories here are all set in Brooklyn and date from early in the last century to the present day . . . What a fine collection. My thanks to Tim McLoughlin for such an intelligent and splendid anthology.”
― Mystery Scene Magazine

From the Publisher

BROOKLYN NOIR is back with a vengeance, this time with the masters of yore: H.P. Lovecraft, Lawrence Block, Donald Westlake, Pete Hamill, Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead, Irwin Shaw, Carolyn Wheat, Thomas Wolfe, Hubert Selby, Stanley Ellin, Gilbert Sorrentino, Maggie Estep, and Salvatore La Puma.

Awards & Praise for the first BROOKLYN NOIR anthology:

BROOKLYN NOIR is an EDGAR AWARD Finalist for “The Book Signing” by Pete Hamill, and winner of the MWA’s ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD for “Can’t Catch Me” by Thomas Morrissey.

BROOKLYN NOIR stories “When All This Was Bay Ridge” by Tim McLoughlin and “Case Closed” by Lou Manfredo have both been selected for BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2005 edited by Joyce Carol Oates and Otto Penzler.