Part of Litquake XII, on Oct 13, 2011 City Lights hosted Subterranean SF: The Litanies of Noir, a night of hard-boiled crime fiction emceed by Peter Maravelis. Attendees were given a black-enveloped invitation, cryptic directions to the location, and a password. The map, we would find, would lead to Al’s Attire in North Beach. Readers were, in the following order: