Pittsburgh has recently been called `the most liveable city in America`
- yet the old image of smoky skies & steel mills spewing forth grit has never quite disappeared. Its history as a dirty industrial centre is part of its inhabitants
- & part of their toughness. The people of the steel city fight. What is Pittsburgh to noir & noir to Pittsburgh? It certainly has its rough streets & grisly murders. But dark crime stories depend on something in addition to killing. In Pittsburgh Noir, the real story is the dark underbelly of existence.