Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Decline of Moral AuthorityDeutsch, Annika R. P.Clues: A Journal of Detection (McFarland & Company)
When it comes to hard-boiled crime fiction with some urban grit, the name George Pelecanos inevitably comes up. Since publishing his 1992 debut,A Firing Offense—the first novel in the popular D.C. Quartet—he’s earned a reputation as the successor to other genre greats, like James Ellro...
Below the Line: A Hollywood Crime Novel byLowell Cauffiel-Fiction,Hard-boiled Crime Fiction,Hard-boiled Mystery,Mystery,Suspense,Thriller Binary byMichael Crichton, writing asJohn Lange-Fiction,Hard-boiled Crime Fiction,Hard-boiled Mystery,Suspense,Thriller ...
hard-boiled fiction, a tough, unsentimental style of American crime writing that, beginning in the 1920s, brought a new tone of earthy realism to the field ofdetective fiction. Populated by detectives andfemmes fatale, hard-boiled fiction uses graphic sex and violence, vivid and often sordid ur...
James M. Cain was a novelist whose violent, sexually obsessed, and relentlessly paced melodramas epitomized the “hard-boiled” school of writing that flourished in the United States in the 1930s and ’40s. He was ranked with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond
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“’The Confession’ hits you like a throat punch. It will leave you thinking about the hard realities of the temporal and the eternal, and that’s the best kind of fiction there is.”—Mike Maden, bestselling author of the Drone Series and Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Jr., novels ...
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The initial crime is usually a murder, but it can also be a heist or another form of violent crime. Subgenres of detective fiction like hardboiled fiction, noir fiction, and others use this format and/or the figure of the detective to craft more complex versions of this story structure ...
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