Mugs, cons, dames. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall. Noir from the '40s and '50s. This is the stuff from which classic dark dreams are made. David Goodis was prolific. He died young (age 49 in 1967) but ...

A Norton woman has been found guilty of molesting and assaulting a 4-year-old girl she baby-sat in her home.The Attleboro Sun Chronicle reports that prosecutors said 33-year-old Crystal Goodis created ...

The writers of the literary and film genre that came to be known as “noir” were a decidedly quirky group — heavy emphasis on alcoholism, troubled relationships, and general bad luck. It went with the ...

If, like me, you discovered David Goodis through the 1980s Black Lizard reprints of his novels, Philippe Garnier’s “Goodis: A Life in Black and White” (Black Pool Productions: 216 pp., $25 paper) has ...

A 33-year-old Massachusetts woman has been convicted of indecent assault and battery after a jury heard she 'created her own house of horrors' at the home of two children she was babysitting. Crystal ...

Humphrey Bogart's face is swathed in bandages, but his psychological wounds run much deeper. Bogart is on the lam in San Francisco in Delmer Daves' "Dark Passage," a typical scenario in the world of ...

DAVID GOODIS is the quintessential hard-boiled writer, someone for whom noir was not just an aesthetic but a way of life. He was born in Philadelphia in 1917, graduated from Temple University with ...

David Loeb Goodis (March 2, 1917 – January 7, 1967) was an American writer of crime fiction noted for his output of short stories and novels in the noir fiction genre. Born in Philadelphia, Goodis ...

One of the great legacies of adman Jerry Goodis' Canadian advertising agency — Goodis, Goldberg, Soren — was the fact so many of its campaigns lasted so long. Such a rarity in the world of advertising ...