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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]
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 ...
Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist.Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, [2] and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987) and L.A. Confidential (1990).
Black Mask was a pulp magazine first published in April 1920 [1] by the journalist H. L. Mencken and the drama critic George Jean Nathan.It is most well-known today for launching the hardboiled crime subgenre of mystery fiction, publishing now-classic works by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, Cornell Woolrich, Paul Cain, Carroll John Daly, and others.
Horace Stanley McCoy (April 14, 1897 – December 15, 1955) was an American writer whose mostly hardboiled stories took place during the Great Depression.His best-known novel is They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Charles Ray Willeford III (January 2, 1919 – March 27, 1988) was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism. Willeford wrote a series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley. [1]
Megan Abbott (born August 21, 1971) [1] is an American author of crime fiction and of non-fiction analyses of hardboiled crime fiction. Her novels and short stories have drawn from and re-worked classic subgenres of crime writing from a female perspective. [2] [3] She is also an American writer and producer of television.
Hard Case Crime is an American imprint of hardboiled crime novels founded in 2004 by Charles Ardai and Max Phillips. [1] [2] The series recreates, in editorial form and content, the flavor of the paperback crime novels of the 1940s and '50s.