I would like to thank all subscribers of A Touch of Noir; present, past and future. I am so honoured and humbled that this series earned 2016 Best Crime Series runner-up award on Channillo. As I mentioned in the Prologue, I’m an avid fan of Film Noir and Noir fiction, and I’m partial to the 40’s -50’s heyday. My favorite directors are Alfred Hitchcock (some of his classics have been classified as Noir), Billy Wilder, Orson Welles, and Fritz Lang.

I wanted to take a shot at writing in this genre, and I decided early on that I would do it as a short story series, each story independent of the other, and I placed the stories in different neighborhoods across San Francisco. The stories were longer then flash fiction, but shorter than the standard short s...

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