{"product_id":"seattle-noir-book-curt-colbert-9781933354804","title":"Seattle Noir","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplore the sinister shine, both past and present, of the Emerald City.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eAkashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn Noir\u003c\/i\u003e. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBrand-new stories by: G. M. Ford, Skye Moody, R. Barri Flowers, Thomas P. Hopp, Patricia Harrington, Bharti Kirchner, Kathleen Alcalá, Simon Wood, Brian Thornton, Lou Kemp, Curt Colbert, Robert Lopresti, Paul S. Piper, and Stephan Magcosta.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the introduction by Curt Colbert:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Early Seattle was a hardscrabble seaport filled with merchant sailors, longshoremen, lumberjacks, rowdy saloons, and a rough-and-tumble police force not immune to corruption and graft. Among the more notorious crimes in the city's early history was the case of Seattle Mayor Corliss P. Stone. A businessman and former member of the city council, Mayor Stone's term was cut short in 1873 when he got caught embezzling $15,000 from his firm, Stone \u0026amp; Burnett. He promptly fled to San Francisco with another man's wife . . .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy the 1950s, Seattle had added Boeing to its claim to fame, but was still a mostly blue-collar burg that was once described as an 'aesthetic dustbin' by Sir Thomas Beecham, a short-term conductor of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Present-Day Seattle has become a pricey, cosmopolitan center, home to Microsoft and legions of Starbucks latte lovers. The city is now famous as the birthplace of grunge music, and possesses a flourishing art, theater, and club scene that many would have thought improbable just a few decades ago. Yet some things never change--crime being one of them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeattle's evolution to high finance and high tech has provided even greater opportunity and reward to those who might be ethically, morally, or economically challenged (crooks, in other words) . . . This is \u003ci\u003eSeattle Noir\u003c\/i\u003e. Cozy up in your favorite easy chair and crack the book open. And be sure to turn up the lights--you'll need them for when it gets dark.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49576349139217,"sku":"GOR007994238","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49724122136849,"sku":"GOR007502607","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49872247947537,"sku":"CIN1933354801G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49895112474897,"sku":"CIN1933354801A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50164107215121,"sku":"CIN1933354801VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53022331470097,"sku":"NIN9781933354804","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1933354801.jpg?v=1751380331","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-ie\/products\/seattle-noir-book-curt-colbert-9781933354804","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}