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Hardboiled

Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction). The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who battles the violence of organized crime that flourished during Prohibition in the United States (1920–1933) and its aftermath, while…

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related to Further reading · 90
Hardboiled → Academia, Adrienne Johnson, American Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction, An, An Overview, Archived, Breu, Case Western Reserve University, Checklist, Christopher, Cold War, Crime-fiction Pastiche, Crimetime, Da Capo, Dark, Dashiell Hammett, Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest, Death Is Behind Them, Defective Inspectors, Detective
related to Resurgence · 17
Hardboiled → Ace Hart, Chinatown, Confidential, Dead Men Don't Wear, Dirty Harry, Dog City, Eddie Valiant, Fallout, Max, Neo-noir, Nick Valentine, Nighthawks, Plaid, Sam, Since, Velda Girl Detective, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
related to history · 14
Hardboiled → Adventure, Black Mask, Consequently, Detective Fiction Weekly, Dime Detective, Don Everhard, From, Gordon Young's, In, Joseph, Pulp, Robert Sampson, Shaw, The
related to Genre pioneers · 11
Hardboiled → America, Cain, Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, English, English James, Gerald Butler, Its, James, Raymond Chandler, The
related to External links · 10
Hardboiled → Comprehensive, Glossary, Hard-boiled Detective, Hard-boiled Guide, Hardboiled Bibliographies, Hardboiled Slang, List, Roscoes, Slugs, Twists
related to Relation to noir fiction · 7
Hardboiled → By, Cornell Woolrich, David Goodis, Eddie Duggan, In, Jay Gertzman, The

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Dime Detectiveinstance ofbut also in other pulps0.80text
Detective Fiction Weeklyinstance ofbut also in other pulps0.80text
Black Lizard.Photo by Paolo Montiinstance ofand in later decades republished by houses0.80text
1975Femmes fatales were standard fare in hardboiled fictioninstance ofand in later decades republished by houses0.80text
Hardboiledrelated to External linksList0.60section
Hardboiledrelated to External linksHard-boiled Guide0.60section
Hardboiledrelated to External linksHard-boiled Detective0.60section
Hardboiledrelated to External linksComprehensive0.60section
Hardboiledrelated to External linksHardboiled Bibliographies0.60section
Hardboiledrelated to External linksTwists0.60section
Hardboiledrelated to External linksSlugs0.60section
Hardboiledrelated to External linksRoscoes0.60section

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