More Highsmith Covers

Highsmith circa 50's

Big Lonely City #57

Bill Rauhauser

Ferenc Haar

Frank Larson

 Brassai

Dirk De Herder

Fred Lyon

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Alex Nyereges

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Sy Kattelson

Ray Metzker

Jason Langer

 John Claridge

KW Gullers

Louis Stettner

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 Ray Koh

Ray Simone

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Malcolm McCarter

Harry Callahan

Harold Feinstein

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John Dahl

 Last Seduction

Red Rock West

......... white cadillac pulls into a small town and a guy goes into a bar, and the bartender mistakes him for a killer. It started there.

excerpt from

Noir Crazy Helmer

Todd McCarthy

Variety 1994

 Kill Me Again

Fallen Angels - Tomorrow I Die

Looming Tower

https://variety.com/1994/voices/columns/noir-crazy-helmer-john-dahl-keeps-genre-alive-120024/

Chance Intersections

       I tend to think that everything counts. In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.

Paul Auster

New York Trilogy

1987

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Drahomir Josef Ruzicka

    https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2343071-city-of-glass-ghosts-the-locked-room

Kissed by Darkness

Out of the Past

Lady from Shanghai

The Killing

Postman Always Rings Twice

Vertigo

Les Diaboliques

The Set Up

Third Man

Pale Flower

Lost Weekend

Human Desire

Nightmare Alley

Mildred Pierce

Body and Soul

Fallen Angel

Double Indemnity

Asphalt Jungle

Rififi

Detour

Murder My Sweet

Night of the Hunter

They Live By Night