Hard-Boiled (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781566397698)

In the 1920s a distinctively American detective fiction emerged from the pages of pulp magazines. The hard-boiled stories published in Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly and Clues featured a new kind of hero and soon challenged the popularity of the British mysteries that held readers in thrall on both sides of the Atlantic. In Hard-Boiled, Erin A. Smith examines the culture that produced and supported this form of detective story through the 1940s.

Author: Erin Smith
ISBN-10: 1566397693
ISBN-13: 9781566397698
Publisher: Temple University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/15/2000
Pages: 215
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d
Award: Anthony Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2001 pg. 908