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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 ...
Hammett is regarded as one of the very best mystery writers. [3] In his obituary in The New York Times, he was described as "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction." [4] Time included Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest on its list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. [5]
P. N. Elrod's start in professional publishing began at TSR writing gaming modules. [5] She has published more than twenty-five novels, beginning in 1990 with her Vampire Files urban fantasy series, featuring hard-boiled private investigator Jack Fleming and his partner, Charles Escott, girlfriend, Bobbi Smythe, and other recurring characters.
Phillips is known for writing comic books, detective noir, and pulp fiction, all works that also influenced him while growing up in South Los Angeles. [4] In particular, his crime fiction has been praised as being a "terrific" example of the hard-boiled mystery genre and being "firmed rooted" in that tradition.
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.
Sean McCann credits Willeford—along with Jim Thompson and David Goodis—as one of the writers responsible for bringing the "hard-boiled crime story to a new stage in its development during the 'paperback revolution' of the 50s." Centered around criminal protagonists rather than private eyes and "focused on those features of the genre that ...
James Arthur Crumley (October 12, 1939 – September 17, 2008) [2] [3] [4] was an American author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays.
William John Burley (1 August 1914 [2] – 15 November 2002) was a Cornish [3] [4] crime writer, best known for his books featuring the detective Charles Wycliffe, [5] which became the basis of the popular television series Wycliffe, shown from 1994 to 1998.