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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]
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 .
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 ...
Hard-boiled eggs, a type of cooked egg; Hardboiled, a style of fiction pioneered in the mid-1920s; Hard Boiled (Bakufu Slump album) Hard Boiled, a 1990–1992 three-issue comic book mini-series written by Frank Miller and drawn by Geof Darrow; Stranglehold, aka Hard Boiled 2; videogame sequel to the 1992 HK action film
Hard-boiled or hard-cooked [7] eggs are boiled long enough for the yolk to solidify (about 10 minutes). [8] They can be eaten warm or cold. Hard-boiled eggs are the basis for many dishes, such as egg salad, cobb salad and Scotch eggs, and may be further prepared as deviled eggs. There are several techniques for hard-boiling an egg. [9]
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]
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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.