Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir |
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| Author:
| Irwin, John T. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-8435-1 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2006 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $45.00USD $45.00 |
Book Description:
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Early in the twentieth century a new character type emerged in the crime novels of American writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler: the "hard-boiled detective, most famously exemplified by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon . Unlike the analytical detectives of nineteenth-century fiction, such as Edgar Allan Poe's Inspector Dupin, the ......
Early in the twentieth century a new character type emerged in the crime novels of American writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler: the "hard-boiled detective, most famously exemplified by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon . Unlike the analytical detectives of nineteenth-century fiction, such as Edgar Allan Poe's Inspector Dupin, the ......