How Sam Spade Came to Be Hard-Boiled (Crime Fiction) ~ an encore (Plus a New Release)

We’ve been talking about crime fiction sub-genres the last few weeks, so it seemed like a good time to re-run Kathy Owen’s excellent two posts on hard-boiled crime fiction.

Hi, Kathy Owen here, to talk about the “hard-boiled” detective story sub-genre and one of my favorite examples of that style, The Maltese Falcon. (Yes, I’m fully embracing the irony of a cozy mystery writer discussing such a rough-and tumble fictional world.)

This will be in two parts. Today, I’ll talk about the sub-...