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Contents include:
- “Ed Gorman Remembered” by Patricia Abbott
- “I Choose to Walk With Death: A Villanelle” by Charles Ardai
- “Low-Budget Noir” by Matt Barry
- “Kent Harrington: A Conversation” by Lou Boxer
- “Gramma’s Heart” by Scrive Chidkink (Print-edition exclusive)
- Excerpt from “Crime Cinema Writing Encounters: Greg Giovanni and Andrew Repasky McElhinney on Casual Encounters: Philadelphia True Crime Confessions” by Nicole Elizabeth Cook (Print-edition exclusive)
- “Bill Crider (1941–2018)” by Scott Cupp
- “Time & Space: Lost in a Day Close to Dying” by M. Dante
- “Two Variations of American Noir: 20th Century Urban ‘Failure Stories’ and More Recent Rural Adventures” by Jay A. Gertzman
- “744 North Rush Street” by Barry Gifford (Excerpt from work-in-progress) (Print-edition exclusive)
- “Woman’s Work” by Michael A. Gonzales
- Introduction to the Capra Edition of “Dia De Los Muertos” 2003 by Kent Harrington
- “Music Noir: Top 50” by Woody Haut
- “Ed Brubaker’s Crime Fiction Career and the Versatility of Superhero Comics” by Dr. Brad K. Hawley
- “I Am Become Kilo” by Joseph Hirsch
- “A Seared Life of Jen Nettles” by Tia Ja’nae
- “Hoe Manifesto” by Tia Ja’nae
- “Mask of the Nice Guy” by K. A. Laity
- “Remembering Ron: A Tribute to Ron Goulart” by Gary Lovisi
- “Brothers” by Warren Moore
- “Arnold Hano” by Greg Shepard
- “Death Wears Diamonds” by Ray P. Shotwell (Print-edition exclusive)
- “Pinkerton” by Duane Swierczynski (Print-edition exclusive)
- “Jane Doe #1” by Don Thompson
- “Jane Doe #2” by Don Thompson
- “Panty-Stuffed Snakeskin Shoe” A Vic Valentine Vignette by Will Viharo
- “Fortune Cookies” A Solomon Stark Story by Lono Waiwaiole
- “A Necklace of Hickeys” (conclusion) by Charles Willeford (Print-edition exclusive)
- “The Wrong Man” by Jonathan Woods
- In Memoriam
- Plus tributes to our award winners for 2018 (Walter Mosley, Geoffrey O’Brien, Dana Polan, and Max Rudin) and 2022 (Megan Abbott, Marcia Muller, Bill Pronzini, and Sarah Weinman), and Joan Schenkar.
