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cynical by this cycle of violence, the detectives of hardboiled fiction are often antiheroes. Notable hardboiled detectives include Dick Tracy, Philip Marlowe...

solution such as a whodunit. Mystery fiction can be contrasted with hardboiled detective stories, which focus on action and gritty realism. Mystery fiction...

literature. Successors of pulps include paperback books, such as hardboiled detective stories and erotic fiction. Before pulp magazines, Newgate novels...

Los Angeles on April 7, 2006. The film's narrative centers on a hardboiled detective story set in a California suburb. Most of the main characters are...

related to and frequently confused with hardboiled detective fiction—due to the regular adaptation of hardboiled detective stories in the film noir style—the...

The Harlem Detective series of novels by Chester Himes comprises nine hardboiled novels set in the 1950s and early 1960s: For Love of Imabelle, a.k.a...

horror novel by American writer William Hjortsberg. Written in a hardboiled detective style with supernatural themes, it was adapted into the 1987 film...

newsreel. The primary literary influence on film noir was the hardboiled school of American detective and crime fiction, led in its early years by such writers...

debut Gumshoe (video game), a 1986 Nintendo shooter Gumshoe, the Hardboiled Detective in the 30s, a 1981 book-based game published by Sleuth Publications...

the deluxe edition was bound in a leatherette binder. Gumshoe, the Hardboiled Detective in the Thirties (1985) by the same game designer and publisher has...

The novel is written in the first-person, similar to much of the hardboiled detective genre. The book was based on research material posted on Ellis' websites...

noir writer Raymond Chandler, describing it as a "send-up of the hardboiled detective novel". Body integrity dysphoria Matthew 5:30 Paul Wittgenstein Skoptsy...

literary criticism. Willeford wrote a series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley. Willeford published steadily from the 1940s on, but...

Cyberpunk writers tend to use elements from crime fiction—particularly hardboiled detective fiction and film noir—and postmodernist prose to describe an often...

secrets." Common elements may include stock characters, such as a hardboiled detective and serial killer, involved in a cat and mouse game. Sensation novels...

published in 2004. It draws heavily on noir influences, particularly the hardboiled detective aspect of film noir and has been referenced as neo-noir novel. Dragon's...

his Garrett P.I. series, which tells the haphazard adventures of hardboiled detective Garrett, and for his Dread Empire series. "Glen Cook – Summary Bibliography"...

Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates...

American writer Jonathan Lethem that blends science fiction and hardboiled detective fiction. The novel won Lethem the Locus Award for Best First Novel...

(1996), working as yet another low-rent, Los Angeles detective. The novel is a mix of hardboiled detective and supernatural horror, laced with heavy doses...