Part I: The jazz age. 30 seconds of darkness / Harry Stephen Keeler --
Brother / Sherwood Anderson --
Kaddish for the kid / Max Allan Collins --
The man who went to Chicago (excerpt) / Richard Wright --
Part II: Noir & neo-noir. He swung and he missed / Nelson Algren --
I'll cut your throat again, Kathleen / Fredric Brown --
The price of salt (excerpt) / Patricia Highsmith --
The starving dogs of Little Croatia / Barry Gifford --
Blue Note / Stuart M. Kaminsky --
The whole world is watching / Libby Fischer Hellman --
Part III: Modern crime. Skin deep / Sara Paretsky --
Death and the point spread / Percy Spurlard Parker --
One holy night / Sandra Cisneros --
The thirtieth amendment / Hugh Holton --
We didn't / Stuard Dybek.
