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  2. Hardboiled - Wikipedia

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    Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is 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 ...

  3. Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States

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    Tough guy or strong man; see also hard-boiled Bruno [8] Two hobos walking along railroad tracks after being put off a train. One is carrying a bindle bindle. Main article: Bindle. The bundle containing cloths and possessions usually carried by a tramp [34] bindle Punk Or Bindle Stiff Tramps or hobos; Migratory harvest workers [34] bing

  4. Category:Hardboiled - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Carroll John Daly - Wikipedia

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    Cover of June 1923 issue of Black Mask featuring Daly's anti-Ku Klux Klan story "Knights of the Open Palm".. Daly is generally considered vital to the history of the hardboiled crime genre, less for the quality of his writing than the fact that he was the first writer to combine all the elements of the style and form that we now recognize as the dark, violent hardboiled story.

  6. Hard Boiled - Wikipedia

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    Hard Boiled (Chinese: 辣手神探) [2] is a 1992 Hong Kong action thriller film directed by John Woo from a screenplay by Gordon Chan and Barry Wong based on a story written by Woo. The film stars Chow Yun-fat , Tony Leung Chiu-wai , and Anthony Wong .

  7. Noir fiction - Wikipedia

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    Noir denotes a marked darkness in theme and subject matter, generally featuring a disturbing mixture of sex and violence. [1]While related to and frequently confused with hardboiled detective fiction—due to the regular adaptation of hardboiled detective stories in the film noir style—the two are not the same. [2]

  8. Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins - Wikipedia

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    Ezekiel "Easy" Porterhouse Rawlins is a fictional character created by the American novelist Walter Mosley.Rawlins is an African-American private investigator, a hard-boiled detective and World War II veteran living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.

  9. Ace Crawford, Private Eye - Wikipedia

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    Tim Conway as Ace Crawford, Private Eye.; Joe Regalbuto as Toomey, a CPA and Crawford's assistant; he always saw Crawford as a hero, and thought that his bumbling was simply some kind of cunning strategy.