The Asphalt Jungle
by W. R. Burnett | 
In a Lonely Place
by Dorothy B. Hughes | 
A Swollen Red Sun
by Matthew McBride | 
Nightmare Alley
by William Lindsay Gresham | 
Cockfighter
by Charles Willeford | 
You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up
by Eric Knight | 
I Married a Dead Man
by Cornell Woolrich | 
Night and the City
by Gerald Kersh | 
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
by Cornell Woolrich | 
Frank Sinatra in a Blender
by Matthew McBride | 
Phantom Lady
by Cornell Woolrich | 
Nightfall
by David Goodis | 
Cassidy's Girl
by David Goodis | 
Miami Purity
by Vicki Hendricks | 
Mildred Pierce
by James M. Cain | 
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
by Horace McCoy | 
Queenpin
by Megan Abbott | 
A Sun for the Dying
by Jean-Claude Izzo | 
Bury Me Deep
by Megan Abbott | 
Private Midnight
by Kris Saknussemm |
The savage chronicle of a gangland boss's odyssey toward power and destruction in the savage Chicago underworld of the 1920's. Burnett's criminous short story, DRESSING UP, won the O. Henry First Prize in 1929. Edward G. Robinson made a landmark role of his portrayal in the film adaptation.