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Kevin Sampsell is a bookstore employee and writer. He is the author of a short story collection, Creamy Bullets (Chiasmus Press) and the upcoming memoir, The Suitcase (HarperPerennial, summer 2009). He is also the editor of The Insomniac Reader (Manic D Press) and the publisher of the micropress, Future Tense Books.

Explore the dark, rainy underbelly of one of America's most beautiful but enigmatic cities.

Publishers Weekly

The home of Chuck Palahniuk, Powell's City of Books-and the place with more strip clubs per capita than any other city in America-gets its due in this splendid entry in Akashic's noir series. Portland natives will appreciate shout-outs to lesser-known landmarks, like the weekly showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Clinton Street Theater in Ariel Gore's "Water Under the Bridge," while outsiders may recognize some of the city's more famous draws, like the Shanghai Tunnels in Gigi Little's "Shanghaied." Standouts include Floyd Skloot's eerily poignant "Alzheimer's Noir"; Jonathan Selwood's "The Wrong House," about a drug deal that goes horribly awry; and Bill Cameron's "Coffee, Black," which features not only his series regular, retired detective Thomas "Skin" Kadash, but also one of the city's most prized commodities: coffee. The 16 stories in this anthology demonstrate that a little rain is never a deterrent to murder. (June)

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Contents

Introduction....................17
Karen Karbo The Clown and Bard S.E. Twenty-Eighth Avenue....................36
Luciana Lopez St. Johns Julia Now....................54
Ariel Gore Water under the Bridge Clinton....................67
Floyd Skloot Alzheimer's Noir Oaks Bottom....................78
Dan DeWeese The Sleeper Highway 30....................103
Jonathan Selwood The Wrong House Mount Tabor....................122
Monica Drake Baby, I'm Here Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital....................142
Bill Cameron Coffee, Black Seven Corners....................163
Jamie S. Rich & Joëlle Jones Gone Doggy Gone Montgomery Park....................176
Jess Walter Virgo Pearl District....................186
Chris A. Bolton The Red Room Powell's City of Books....................205
Justin Hocking Burnside Forever Burnside Skatepark....................218
Zoe Trope Hummingbird S.E. Eighty-Second Avenue....................232
Gigi Little Shanghaied Old Town....................245
Megan Kruse Lila Powell Boulevard....................257
Kimberly Warner-Cohen People Are Strange Sandy Boulevard....................274