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From its earliest days, hardboiled fiction was published in and closely associated with so-called pulp magazines.Pulp historian Robert Sampson argues that Gordon Young's "Don Everhard" stories (which appeared in Adventure magazine from 1917 onwards), about an "extremely tough, unsentimental, and lethal" gun-toting urban gambler, anticipated the hardboiled detective stories. [7]
The top-selling entries in the series to date have been novels by Stephen King: The Colorado Kid (2005), which later became the basis for the SyFy television series Haven, [4] [5] [6] Joyland (2013), and Later (2021). Hard Case Crime co-founder Charles Ardai at 2024 book signing for Gun Honey: Collision Course at Midtown Comics in Manhattan.
Pages in category "Hardboiled crime novels" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Articles relating to hardboiled, 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 (1920–1933) and its aftermath, while dealing with a legal system that has become as corrupt as the ...
Holly is a 2023 crime novel [3] by American author Stephen King.It was published on September 5, 2023, by Scribner.The novel follows Holly Gibney, [4] who made her first appearance in Mr. Mercedes (2014). [5]
A Companion to Crime Fiction describes Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World as a 'metaphysical detective story', comparing it with Kobo Abe's Inter Ice Age 4 and Andrew Crumey's Mobius Dick, 'linking apocalyptic science fiction and metaphysical detective/mystery stories through antiphonal narratives, alternating "science" and ...
The Likeness is a 2008 mystery novel by Tana French.Set in Ireland, it is the second volume in French's Dublin Murder Squad series.The Likeness and In the Woods, the first book of the series, are the inspiration for the BBC and Starz's 2019 Dublin Murders, an eight-episode series.
It was the fiftieth book in the Hard Case Crime series and the first to be published under Ardai's real name. His fourth novel, Hunt Through the Cradle of Fear, is part of a pulp adventure series he created in 2009, describing the globetrotting exploits of a modern-day explorer named Gabriel Hunt. Authorship of all the books in this series were ...