Whodunit? (Guardian Unlimited)

It's a world of scheming vixens, lonesome gumshoes and wheedling informers. Someone's to blame for film noir, but who? Matthew Sweet lines up the suspects The hero who's on the way to the gallows, and knows it. The dame with the automatic pistol slipped in her garter. The creepy informer with the leering smile and eyes like two hard-boiled eggs on a plate. The private dick who wouldn't recognise ...