Winning the part, he lands in Hollywood, where he's flung into a tangled, murderous conspiracy with his childhood sweetheart, Harmony Lane (Michelle Monaghan), and hard-boiled private eye Perry van Shrike (Val Kilmer). This deadpan, affectionate parody of film noir tropes is named for ...
Here's our reasoning, though: A detective game is about more than just a hard-boiled police guy in a trench coat and hat, who loves to grumble about grisly murders in the rain. Detectiving can be done by anyone with a need to uncover, discover, and answer questions, and many of the...
Private investigator Easy is a black hard-boiled detective and World War II veteran living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, and features in a series of best-selling mysteries set from the 1940s to the 1960s. The mysteries combine traditional conventions of detective f...
Perfect Entertainment / 1999 Based on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series of comic fantasy novels, this is a fun send-up of hard-boiled detective fiction. It's mostly a game about talking to people, leaning on them for clues, and opening up new lines of investigation to edge closer to the...
Perfect Entertainment / 1999 Based on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series of comic fantasy novels, this is a fun send-up of hard-boiled detective fiction. It's mostly a game about talking to people, leaning on them for clues, and opening up new lines of investigation to edge closer to the...
Novelist Jim Thompson was a genius of hardboiled crime fiction: his books are lean and gripping, generally following a rugged, amoral, none-too-bright hero as he’s messed with by a sharp-witted woman with a lust for cash. This Martin Scorsese-produced, Stephen Frears-directed black comedy...
•The Lineup: The World’s Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives edited by Otto Penzler (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company) •Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King by Lisa Rogak (Thomas Dunne Books) ...
family secrets, heinous crimes, dark conspiracies, and lots of suspects. Starring Carla Sehn as Hanna Ahlander and Kardo Razzazi as Daniel Lindskog, ‘The Åre Murders’ is a fresh addition to Netflix’s detective genre, full of “icy” suspense and hard-boiled drama. It can be stream...
In this evocative, hard-boiled mystery set in post-war Los Angeles, veteran Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is struggling to find work. A white P.I. (Tom Sizemore) asks for help in locating a missing white woman (Jennifer Beals) who spends a lot of time in Black social circles, luring Easy in...
and tell the story of the iconic hardboiled detective sam spade (of dashiell hammett’s 1930 novel the maltese falcon ) in retirement in bozouls, where, bien sur , a group of nuns is murdered. owen is dashing with a cigarette and suit, and the twisty plot pulls in the cold war, ...