More Mean Streets USA

American crime fiction took a hard left in the 1920s, veering away from English-style country roads and heading hell-bent back to the mean city streets.

U.S. authors have been exploring those mean streets ever since: from the hard-boiled times of the ‘20s and ‘30s, through the ‘40s and ‘50s noir years, into the modern and postmodern eras.

Today’s mystery and thriller writers extend that past tradition to catch the shifting shape of timeless trouble.  In the 21st century, those mean streets may run right back into the country; and some of the nastier paths you travel may be the ones inside your own head.

The writers whose stories are dramatized in KCRW’s “More Mean Streets USA” range from a semi-legendary figure from the Jazz Age, to some of the most skilful storytellers of the post-World War II years, to the fastest-rising genre-stars of today and tomorrow.

This all new, thrilling and engrossing 8-hour production from KCRW own studios features newly recorded detective stories by contemporary and classic hard-boiled mystery writers. Stories by Walter Mosley, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Robert B. Parker, Ed McBain, Marcia Muller, Peter Blauner, Barbara Seranella, Lee Child, Loren D. Estleman,  Craig Johnson, Don Winslow, Paul Cain, Margaret Millar and William Kent Krueger.

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