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Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them

Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir

Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them( )
Author: Irwin, John T.
ISBN:978-0-8018-8435-1
Publication Date:Sep 2006
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $99.99
Book Description:

Early in the twentieth century a new character type emerged in the crime novels of American writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler: the "hard-boiled detective, most famously exemplified by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon . Unlike the analytical detectives of nineteenth-century fiction, such as Edgar Allan Poe's Inspector Dupin, the ......

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