Black Noir
Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction by African-American Writers

By far the best collection of crime, mystery and suspense shorts that I've ever encountered. Mostly written in the early 1900s by Black writers only, these gritty yarns effortlessly evoke images of dark alleys, sounds from the shadows and stoic detectives.......more

One of the best anthologies I have read in years. I learned a lot from the histories of each author prior to the short stories written. The book also elevated my vocabulary. I loved the stories written in the early part of the 1900s. These authors mastered suspense. I didn't realize that there were......more

Nice starting point......more

I'd recommend this book to anyone who likes mystery fiction. I'm not a short story fan but I picked this up in the bookstore and the introduction said that "mystery fiction written by black authors is, not surprisingly, often very different from work in that broadly defined genre written by white au......more

This is by far my favorite book of 2020. There is a world of black mystery, crime, and suspense writers that I didn't know about. I purchased 5 books while reading this collection of short stories. A lot of these authors were born in the mid-1800s to the mid-1990s. I didn't know that Black Mystery W......more