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02419aam a2200385 i 4500 001 35BF1AE83BFA11EEA8F9593728ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230816010031 008 220921s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1636140998 020 $a 9781636140995 035 $a (OCoLC)1345220559 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Headen, Miesha Wilson. 245 1 $a Cleveland noir / $c edited by Michael Ruhlman and Miesha Wilson Headen. 246 3 $a Cleveland Noir. 264 1 $a Brooklyn, NY : $b Akashic Books, $c [2023] 300 $a 283 pages : $b map ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a Akashic noir series 490 1 $a Akashic noir series 520 $a "Cleveland is a working-class town, though its great institutions were founded by twentieth-century robber barons and magnates . . . It's this mix of the wealthy and the working class that makes this city-an urban center of brick and girders surrounded by verdant suburbs-a perfect backdrop for lawlessness. Cleveland has certainly seen its share of high-profile crime. Eliot Ness, Cleveland's director of public safety in the 1930s, hunted unsuccessfully for the 'torso murderer' who killed and dismembered twelve people in Kingsbury Run, the area now known as the Flats, then populated by bars, brothels, flophouses, and gambling dens. The famous disappearance of Beverly Potts in the early 1950s on Cleveland's west side made national headlines. The sensational murder of Marilyn Sheppard in Bay Village and the imprisonment and eventual acquittal of her husband, the surgeon Sam Sheppard, became the basis for a popular television drama The Fugitive . . . The noir stories in this volume hit all these same notes, and their geographies reflect the history of the city and its politics, its laws, poverty, alienation, racism, crime, and violence"--Page 4 of cover. 541 $d 20230810. 650 $a Noir fiction, American. 650 $a Detective and mystery stories, American. 650 7 $a Short stories, American. 651 $a Cleveland (Ohio) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Detective and mystery fiction. 655 7 $a Short stories. 700 $a Ruhlman, Michael, $e editor. 830 $a Akashic noir series. 830 $a Akashic noir series. 941 $a 2 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20231107011031.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20230816010113.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=35BF1AE83BFA11EEA8F9593728ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search