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Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9781566397698
- ISBN-10: 1566397693
- Publisher: Temple University Press
- Publish Date: May 2000
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.65 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.71 pounds
- Page Count: 215
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