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Loading... Hard-Boiled: Working Class Readers and Pulp Magazinesby Erin A. Smith
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In the 1920's 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 1940's. Relying on pulp magazine advertising, the memoirs of writers and publishers, Depression-era No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.087209052Literature English (North America) American fiction By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Mystery fictionLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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