Cracking the Hard-boiled Detective: A Critical History from the 1920s to the Present

by Lewis D. Moore (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

  $24.02

  Analyzes the character of the hard-boiled detective, from literary antecedents through the early 21st century. This critical study follows change in the novels through three main periods: the Early (roughly 1927-1955); the Transitional, evident by 1964 and continuing to around 1977; and the Modern, since the late 1970s.