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E58 -- Chicago Noir

Point Blank: Hardboiled, Noir, & Detective Fiction

Release Date: 06/22/2021

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Zip up your windbreakers and don’t forget change for the highway tolls — in Episode 58 we head to Chicago to wrap our heads around Chicago Noir.

We talk about Chicago as a city for noir, and we look at crime fiction by Nelson Algren, Howard Browne, Frederic Brown, Sara Paretsky, Michael Harvey, Danny Gardner, Bob Hartley, & more.

Italian beef, tavern cut pizza, Old Style, Malort, murder. You ready?

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