New Orleans Noir

Introduction 13 PART I: BEFORE THE LEVEES BROKE TED O'BRIEN 21 Mid-City What's the Score? PATTY FRIEDMANN 31 Uptown Two-Story Brick Houses TIM MCLOUGHLIN 43 Irish Channel Scared Rabbit OLYMPIA VERNON 51 University District Schevoski DAVID FULMER 56 Algiers Algiers LAURA LIPPMAN 68 Trem TD> Pony Girl JERVEY TERVALON 78 Seventh Ward The Battling Priests of Corpus Christi JAMES NOLAN 88 French Quarter Open Mike KALAMU YA SALAAM 110 Lower Ninth Ward All I Could Do Was Cry BARBARA HAMBLY 129 The Swamp There Shall Your Heart Be Also PART II: LIFE IN ATLANTIS MAUREEN TAN 149 Village de l'Est Muddy Pond THOMAS ADCOCK 171 Gentilly Lawyers' Tongues JERI CAIN ROSSI 188 Bywater And Hell Walked In CHRISTINE WILTZ 201 Lakeview Night Taxi GREG HERREN 224 Lower Garden District Annunciation Shotgun JULIE SMITH 244 Garden District Loot ACE ATKINS 264 Loyola Avenue Angola South ERIC OVERMYER 274 Faubourg Marigny Marigny Triangle About the Contributors 282