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    Hardboiled - Wikipedia

    • Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction). The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who battles the violence of organized crime that flourished during Prohibition (1920–1933) and its aftermath, while dealing with a legal system that has becom… See more

    Genre pioneers

    The style was pioneered by Carroll John Daly in the mid-1920s, popularized by Dashiell Hammett over the course of the decade, … See more

    Pulp fiction

    From its earliest days, hardboiled fiction was published in and closely associated with so-called pulp magazines. Pulp historian Robert Sampson argues that Gordon Young's "Don Everhard" stories (which app… See more

    Relation to noir fiction

    Hardboiled writing is also associated with "noir fiction". Eddie Duggan discusses the similarities and differences between the two related forms in his 1999 article on pulp writer Cornell Woolrich. In his full-length study of Da… See more

    Further reading

    • Breu, Christopher (July 2004). "Going blood-simple in poisonville: hard-boiled masculinity in Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest". Men and Masculinities. 7 (1): 52–76. doi:10.1177/1097184X03257449. S2CID… See more

    External links

    • "A–Z List: Hard-boiled Guide". rraymond.narod.ru. A list of hard-boiled and noir writers.
    • "Hard-boiled Detective". rraymond.narod.ru. Comprehensive bibliographies.… See more

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    Hardboiled Detective - TV Tropes

    Learn about the hardboiled detective, a tough, cynical guy who solves mysteries in a City Noir setting. Find out the origin, characteristics, examples, and contrasts of this subgenre of mystery fiction and crime fiction.

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