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Hard Boiled
Hard-boiled crime fiction is a literary style, most commonly associated with detective stories, distinguished by the unsentimental portrayal of violence and sex. Derived from the romantic tradition which emphasized the emotions of apprehension, awe, horror and terror, hardboiled fiction deviates from that tradition in the detective's cynical attitude towards those emotions. The attitude is conveyed through the detectives inner monologue describing to the audience what he is doing and feeling.
The genre's typical protagonist is a detective, who witnesses daily the violence of organized crime tha ...more
The genre's typical protagonist is a detective, who witnesses daily the violence of organized crime tha ...more
The Haycraft-Queen Definitive Library of Crime, Detective and Mystery Fiction
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“
It’s a nice town.’ She said sharply, a little breathlessly. ‘You can’t judge-‘
‘Okey, it’s a nice town. So is Chicago. You could live there a long time and not see a Tommy-gun. Sure, it’s a nice town. It’s probably no crookeder than Los Angeles. But you can only buy a piece of a big city. You can buy a town this size all complete, with the original box and tissue paper. That’s the difference. And that makes me want out.
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― Farewell, My Lovely
― Farewell, My Lovely
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She was quite a doll. She wore a white belted raincoat, no hat, a well-cherished head of platinum hair, booties to match the raincoat, a folding plastic umbrella, a pair of blue-gray eyes that looked at me as if I had said a dirty word. I helped her off with her raincoat. She smelled very nice. She had a pair of legs - so far as I could determine - that were not painful to look at. She wore night sheer stockings. I stared at them rather intently, especially when she crossed her legs and held out
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