Cracking the hard-boiled detective : a critical history from the 1920s to the present / Lewis D. Moore.

"This critical study analyzes how the hard-boiled detective character has developed, from literary antecedents through the early 21st century. It focuses on three main periods: the Early (roughly 1927-1955), during which the character was defined by such writers as Carroll John Daly, Dashiell H...

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Main Author: Moore, Lewis D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2006], ©2006.
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