In the 1920s a distinctively American detective fiction emerged from the pages of pulp magazines. The hard-boiled stories published in Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly and Clues featured a new kind of hero and soon challenged the popularity of the British mysteries that held readers in thrall on both sides of the Atlantic. In Hard-Boiled, Erin A. Smith examines the culture that produced and supported this form of detective story through the 1940s.

Hard-Boiled: Working Class Readers and Pulp Magazines

Literature & Fiction

Erin A. Smith

History & Criticism

Temple University Press

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Hard-Boiled: Working Class Readers and Pulp Magazines