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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...