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Title	Author	Description
The Big Clock Big Clock	Kenneth Fearing Fearing	How does a man escape from himself? No book has ever dramatized that question to more perfect effect than The Big Clock, a masterpiece of American noir. Contributors: Nicholas Christopher
Classic Crimes Classic Crimes	William Roughead Roughead	Displaying a meticulous command of evidence and unerring dramatic flair, Roughead brings to life some of the most notorious crimes and extraordinary trials of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England and Scotland. Contributors: Luc Sante
The Day of the Owl Day of the Owl	Leonardo Sciascia Sciascia	This short, beautifully paced novel is a mesmerizing description of the Mafia at work. Contributors: George Scialabba , Archibald Colquhoun and Anthony Oliver
Dirty Snow Dirty	Georges Simenon Simenon	Dirty Snow, widely acknowledged as one of Simenon's finest books, is a study of the criminal mind comparable to Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me. Contributors: William T. Vollmann , Marc Romano and Louise Varese
Equal Danger Equal Danger	Leonardo Sciascia Sciascia	District Attorney Varga is shot dead. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Are these random murders, or part of a conspiracy? Contributors: Carlin Romano , Adrienne Foulke
A Handbook on Hanging Handbook on Hanging	Charles Duff Duff	With barbed insouciance, Charles Duff writes not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitations, and gassings; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of the bloodlust of mobs and the shabby excuses of the great. Contributors: Christopher Hitchens
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By Man Who Watched Trains Go By	Georges Simenon Simenon	How different are the cautious routines of ordinary life from the compulsions of a killer? How reliable is even the most reliable man's identity? What finally is the truth about a person? Contributors: Luc Sante , Marc Romano
Monsieur Monde Vanishes Monsieur Monde Vanishes	Georges Simenon Simenon	Unsurpassed as an evocation of milieu, whether of staid bourgeois propriety or waterfront seediness, Monsieur Monde Vanishes is another triumph by the twentieth century's greatest popular novelist. Contributors: Larry McMurtry , Jean Stewart
The Moro Affair Moro Affair	Leonardo Sciascia Sciascia	The Moro Affair presents a chilling picture of how a secretive government and a ruthless terrorist faction help to keep each other in business. Contributors: Peter Robb , Sacha Rabinovitch
Novels in Three Lines Novels in Three Lines	Félix Fénéon Feneon	Luc Sante has selected the best of anarchist and art critic Fénéon's vignettes of the darker side of life—adultery, murder, revenge, labor unrest, and suicide—in early-20th-century France. —Illustrated Contributors: Luc Sante