David Goodis
Author · 23 books
Born and bred in Philadelphia, David Goodis was an American noir fiction writer. He grew up in a liberal, Jewish household in which his early literary ambitions were encouraged. After a short and inconclusive spell at Indiana University, he returned to Philadelphia to take a degree in journalism, graduating in 1937.
Series
Books
Street of the Lost
1952
The Blue Sweetheart
1953
The Blonde on the Street Corner
1954
Of Tender Sin
1952
The Wounded and the Slain
1955
Of Missing Persons
1950
Street of No Return
1952
The Best American Noir of the Century
2010
Night Squad
1961
Crime Novels
American Noir of the 1950s
1997
Nightfall, Cassidy's Girl, Night Squad
2020
Shoot the Piano Player
1956
Somebody's Done For
1967
Nightfall
1947
Black Friday
1954
Nightfall; Down There; Dark Passage; The Moon In The Gutter
1983
Fire in the Flesh
1957
The Moon in the Gutter
1953
The Burglar
1953
David Goodis
2012
Cassidy's Girl
1951
Dark Passage
1946
Black Friday and Selected Stories
1954
