ContentsPART I: OLD SCHOOL BROOKLYNH.P. LOVECRAFT Red HookThe Horror at Red Hook IRWIN SHAW BrownsvilleBorough of Cemeteries MAGGIE ESTEP KensingtonLuck Be a Lady PART II: COPS & ROBBERSLAWRENCE BLOCK Sunset ParkBy the Dawn’s Early Light DONALD E. WESTLAKE Park SlopeThe Best-Friend Murder PETE HAMILL South SlopeThe Men in Black Raincoats PART III: WARTIME BROOKLYNHUBERT SELBY, JR. South BrooklynTralala SALVATORE LA PUMA BensonhurstThe Boys of Bensonhurst GILBERT SORRENTINO Bay RidgeSteelwork

New York’s punchiest borough asserts its criminal legacy with all new stories from a magnificent set of today’s best writers. Brooklyn Noir moves from Coney Island to Bedford-Stuyvesant to Bay Ridge to Red Hook to Bushwick to Sheepshead Bay to Park Slope and far deeper, into the heart of Brooklyn’s historical and criminal largesse, with all of its dark splendor. Each contributor presents a brand new story set in a distinct neighborhood.Brooklyn Noir mixes masters of the mystery genre with the best of New York’s literary fiction community—and, of course, leaves room for new blood. These brilliant and chilling stories see crime striking in communities of Russians, Jamaicans, Hasidic Jews, Puerto Ricans, Italians, Irish and many other ethnicities—in the most diverse urban location on the planet.TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction PART I: OLD SCHOOL BROOKLYN"The Book Signing" PETE HAMILL (Park Slope)"Hasidic Noir" PEARL ABRAHAM (Williamsburg)"No Time for Senior's" SIDNEY OFFIT (Downtown)"When All This Was Bay Ridge" TIM MCLOUGHLIN (Sunset Park)"Practicing" ELLEN MILLER (Canarsie) PART II: NEW SCHOOL BROOKLYN"Crown Heist" ADAM MANSBACH (Crown Heist)"Hunter/Trapper" ARTHUR NERESIAN (Brooklyn Heights)"New Lots Avenue" NELSON GEORGE (Brownsville)"Scavenger Hunt" NEAL POLLACK (Coney Island)"The Code" NORMAN KELLEY (Prospect Heights) PART III: COPS & ROBBERS"Can't Catch Me" THOMAS MORRISSEY (Bay Ridge)"Case Closed" LOU MANFREDO (Bensonhurst)"Eating Italian" LUCIANO GUERRIERO (Red Hook)"Thursday" KENJI JASPER (Bed-Stuyvesant)"One More for the Road" ROBERT KNIGHTLY (Greenpoint) PART IV: BACKWATER BROOKLYN"Triple Harrison" MAGGIE ESTEP (East New York)"Fade to . . . Brooklyn" KEN BRUEN (Galway, Ireland)"Dumped" NICOLE BLACKMAN (Fort Greene)"Slipping into Darkness" C.J. SULLIVAN (Bushwick)"Ladies' Man" CHRIS NILES (Brighton Beach)