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<p> The hard-boiled style of detective fiction emerged in America in the years after the First World War. In the late 1940s, following the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, a new generation of young writers revisited the conventions governing the fictional private eye, and began to move him (the tough detective was still always male) and his world in new directions. This book examines the work of the four most important writers of this second generation of hard-boiled fiction.

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Author

J. Kenneth Van Dover

Publisher

McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781476688022

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Fiction, Mystery, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-25