11 hard-boiled crimes featuring a cast of memorable anthropomorphic animals.New Growl has always had too much crime. From the 20s until its inevitable collapse, eleven authors are exposing the city's seedy underbelly.The upper echelon, the lower class, and all of the animals in between have their share of problems. Some hire the private detectives or jet to a private island to escape, while others are the ones on-call and in the trenches.It's familiar, it's different, it's Animal Noir. *Stories by Angelique O'Rourke, A.P. Howell, Ben Curl, Beth Cook, Camden Rose, Elad Haber, H.L. Fullerton, M Shedric Simpson, Megan Lee Bees, Pen Anderson, and Phoenix Bourgeois. / Illustrations and edits by Elizabeth Mitchell