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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.
Chester Bomar Himes (July 29, 1909 – November 12, 1984) was an American writer. His works, some of which have been filmed, include If He Hollers Let Him Go, published in 1945, and the Harlem Detective series of novels for which he is best known, set in the 1950s and early 1960s and featuring two black policemen called Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. [1]
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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.