By Jesi Khadivi
In the history of crime fiction windy, cold Chicago lurks in the shadows of Los Angeles, the sun drenched nightmare widely acknowledged as the capital of noir. The low slung bungalows and seedy downtown detective agencies propagate the myth of the Angeleno detective as a loner anti-hero awash in the anxiety of the post-war American dream. The Chicago style does not exactly fit the mold of a modern hard boiled noir; it is a style as richly varied as its history.
