Date: 2020 Onward
MainCategory: CONTEMPORARY
Types: Series, Short story collection, Trilogy
Genres: Detective/crime/Mystery, Noir Fiction
tropes: Hard-boiled, Noir detective, Pulp
Lenght: short
Seriesize: .3
Reception: LIttle known
Everybody loves the femme fatale; the tough-as-nails dame with the smoky voice and the legs that go on forever – almost as much as they love the cynical gumshoe with the strict moral code and the tiniest soft spot in his heart.
Hard-boiled detective fiction – America’s gift to literature – was introduced to the world in the middle of the Roaring Twenties, allegedly reached its height in the 1950s; and if you listen to the pundits, died out with the pulp magazines.
Hogwash. Hardboiled detective fiction lives on in its offspring: the roman noir, film noir, neo-
noir, Mediterranean noir, and last – but certainly not least – cyberpunk.
Join these 8 authors as they explore the world of the hard-boiled detective and the dames they love.
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