The Mysterious Romance of Murder

Introduction: The Mysterious Romance of Murder
Part I: Killer Style
1. Cracking Wise
2. Paradise of the Damned: Eighteen Notes on Noir
3. Poetry Noir
4. Five Noir Poems
"Perfidia"
"Laura"
"Witness to a Murder"
"The Formula"
"Just a Couple of Mugs"
Part II: The Elements of Crime
5. Here's to Crime!
6. The Last Cigarette
7. Among My Souvenirs
Part III: Auteurs
8. The Great British Spymasters
9. The Limits of Logic: Trent's Last Case (E. C. Bentley)
10. Dashiell Hammett's Priceless Patter
11. Paperclip (Raymond Chandler)
12. "Grim Grin" (Graham Greene)
13. Rex Stout: The Emperor of Couronne de Canard
14. Ida Lupino: The First Lady of Noir
15. Black Friday (David Goodis)
16. Orange Noir (Charles Willeford)
17. Ed McBain: The Man from Isola
18. Hitchcock's America
Part IV: Dreams That Money Can Buy
19. Straight Down the Line: Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity (1944)
20. Strangers and Mirrors: Orson Welles's The Stranger (1946) and The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
21. An Exchange of Bullets in Belfast: Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (1947)
22. Blind Accidents: John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
23. Epitaph for a Genre: Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956)
24. Shadow of Evil: Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear (1962)
25. A Reluctant Spy's Conversion: William Holden in The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
26. Gangsters in Love: Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
27. Rogues' Gallery
28. Why Not New York?
Part V: The Imp of the Perverse
29. Three Astrological Profiles
Barbara Stanwyck (July 16)
Graham Greene (October 2)
Marlene Dietrich (December 27)