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What are the ingredients of a hard-boiled detective story?'Savagery, style, sophistication, sleuthing and sex,'said Ellery Queen. Often a desperate blond, a jealous husband, and, of course, a tough-but-tender P.I. the likes of Sam Spade or Philop Marlowe. Perhaps Raymond Chandler summed it up best in his description of Dashiell Hammett's style:'Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it....He put these people down on paper as they were, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used for these purposes.'Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories is the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind, with over half of the stories never published before in book form. Included are thirty-six sublimely suspenseful stories that chronicle the evolutiuon of this quintessentially American art form, from its earliest beginnings during the Golden Age of the legendary pulp magazine Black Mask in the 1920s, to the arrival of the tough digest Manhunt in the 1950s, and finally leading up to present-day hard-boiled stories by such writers as James Ellroy. Here are eight decades worth of the best writing about betrayal, murder, and mayhem: f

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Author

Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195103533

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

True Crime, Fiction, Short Stories

Rating

4.15 / 5 (114 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14