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Author : Ron Goulart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Hardboiled Dicks written by Ron Goulart and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Blumenthal
Publisher : Touchstone
ISBN 13 : 9780671555382
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (553 download)
Download or read book The Case of the Hardboiled Dicks written by John Blumenthal and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A parody of detective stories features Mac Slade as he searches for the missing brother of a Greenwich Village socialite, only to be accused of murder
Author : Linda Mizejewski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135880050
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Hardboiled and High Heeled written by Linda Mizejewski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a gumshoe wear high heels? In a genre long dominated by men, women are now taking their place-as authors and as characters-alongside hard-boiled legends like Sam Spade and Mike Hammer. Hardboiled and High Heeled examines the meteoric rise of the female detective in contemporary film, television, and literature. Richly illustrated and written with a fan's love of the genre, Hardboiled and High Heeled is an essential introduction to women in detective fiction, from past to present, from pulp fiction to blockbuster films.
Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307781097
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World written by Haruki Murakami and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive novel, Japan’s most popular (and controversial) fiction writer hurtles into the consciousness of the West. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World draws readers into a narrative particle accelerator in which a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect. What emerges is simultaneously cooler than zero and unaffectedly affecting, a hilariously funny and deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author : Erin Smith
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592139116
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Hard-Boiled written by Erin Smith and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the culture that produced and supported pulp-fiction.
Author : Leonard Cassuto
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231126905
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Hard-boiled Sentimentality written by Leonard Cassuto and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonard Cassuto's cultural history of the hard-boiled crime genre recovers the fascinating link between tough guys and sensitive women
Author : William F. Deeck
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0941028119
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Mystery Fancier written by William F. Deeck and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bibliography of various mystery novels published between November 1976 and Fall 1992.
Author : Todhunter Ballard
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879723170
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Hollywood Troubleshooter written by Todhunter Ballard and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first collection of short stories by W.T. Ballard. This volume is just a sampling of Ballard's most famous character Bill Lennox, a selection for both the connoisseur of crime and the lover of good, fast-moving crime/adventure stories.
Author : LeRoy Panek
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879728205
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (282 download)
Download or read book New Hard-boiled Writers, 1970s-1990s written by LeRoy Panek and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With an eye toward the origins and development of the hard-boiled story, LeRoy Lad Panek comments both on the way it has changed over the past three decades and examines the work of ten significant contemporary hardboiled writers. Chapters show how the new writers have used the hard-boiled story and the hard-boiled hero to make powerful statements about reality in the last quarter of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : David E. Wilt
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879725259
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Hardboiled in Hollywood written by David E. Wilt and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the film careers of five screenwriters, who were crime and mystery writers for the famous Black mask pulp magazine. Also shows how these five writers applied their pulp writing expertise to the movies.
Author : Donald E. Westlake
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022612195X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The Getaway Car written by Donald E. Westlake and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a book for everyone, anyone who likes mystery novels or good writing or wit and passion and intelligence.”—The New York Times Over the course of a fifty-year career, Donald E. Westlake published nearly one hundred books, including two long-running series starring the hard-hitting Parker and the hapless John Dortmunder. With The Getaway Car, we get our first glimpse of another side of Westlake the writer: what he did when he wasn’t busy making stuff up. Mixing previously published pieces, many little seen, with never-before-published material found in Westlake’s working files, this compendium offers a clear picture of the man behind the books—including his thoughts on his own work and that of his peers, mentors, and influences. It opens with revealing (and funny) fragments from an unpublished autobiography, then goes on to offer an extended history of private eye fiction, a conversation among Westlake’s numerous pen names, letters to friends and colleagues, interviews, appreciations of fellow writers, and much, much more. There’s even a recipe for Sloth à la Dortmunder. Really. “A must-have for Westlake fans.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “This book doesn’t disappoint…Westlake was a hugely entertaining and witty writer. Whether he is writing a letter to his editor or about the history of his genre, he remains true to his definition of what makes a great writer: ‘passion, plus craft.’”—The Guardian “[A] valuable collection.”—Toronto Star Includes a foreword by Lawrence Block
Author : Robert E. Skinner
Publisher : Brownstone Books
ISBN 13 : 9780941028042
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The New Hard-boiled Dicks written by Robert E. Skinner and published by Brownstone Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P. Bedore
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137288655
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction written by P. Bedore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between subversive and conservative impulses—theorized as contamination and containment—explain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner.
Author : Erika Janik
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080703939X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Pistols and Petticoats written by Erika Janik and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively exploration of the struggles faced by women in law enforcement and mystery fiction for the past 175 years In 1910, Alice Wells took the oath to join the all-male Los Angeles Police Department. She wore no uniform, carried no weapon, and kept her badge stuffed in her pocketbook. She wasn’t the first or only policewoman, but she became the movement’s most visible voice. Police work from its very beginning was considered a male domain, far too dangerous and rough for a respectable woman to even contemplate doing, much less take on as a profession. A policewoman worked outside the home, walking dangerous city streets late at night to confront burglars, drunks, scam artists, and prostitutes. To solve crimes, she observed, collected evidence, and used reason and logic—traits typically associated with men. And most controversially of all, she had a purpose separate from her husband, children, and home. Women who donned the badge faced harassment and discrimination. It would take more than seventy years for women to enter the force as full-fledged officers. Yet within the covers of popular fiction, women not only wrote mysteries but also created female characters that handily solved crimes. Smart, independent, and courageous, these nineteenth- and early twentieth-century female sleuths (including a healthy number created by male writers) set the stage for Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple, Sara Paretsky’s V. I. Warshawski, Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta, and Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone, as well as TV detectives such as Prime Suspect’s Jane Tennison and Law and Order’s Olivia Benson. The authors were not amateurs dabbling in detection but professional writers who helped define the genre and competed with men, often to greater success. Pistols and Petticoats tells the story of women’s very early place in crime fiction and their public crusade to transform policing. Whether real or fictional, investigating women were nearly always at odds with society. Most women refused to let that stop them, paving the way to a modern professional life for women on the force and in popular culture.
Author : John G. Cawelt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022614870X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Adventure, Mystery, and Romance written by John G. Cawelt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first general theory for the analysis of popular literary formulas, John G. Cawelti reveals the artistry that underlies the best in formulaic literature. Cawelti discusses such seemingly diverse works as Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Dorothy Sayers's The Nine Tailors, and Owen Wister's The Virginian in the light of his hypotheses about the cultural function of formula literature. He describes the most important artistic characteristics of popular formula stories and the differences between this literature and that commonly labeled "high" or "serious" literature. He also defines the archetypal patterns of adventure, mystery, romance, melodrama, and fantasy, and offers a tentative account of their basis in human psychology.
Author : Margaret Kinsman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476625697
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Sara Paretsky written by Margaret Kinsman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara Paretsky's groundbreaking mystery series about Chicago private investigator V.I. Warshawski debuted in 1982 and is still going strong. She is a co-founder of Sisters in Crime (worldwide organization supporting women writers), a sought-after public speaker and the 2015 president of the Mystery Writers of America. This book is the first comprehensive reference work on Paretsky, providing an overview of the Warshawski novels and short stories, her other novels, a volume of collected essays, her anthologies and journalism. Special attention is paid to the character of Warshawski--the tough, street-smart detective who challenges stereotypical representations of women in crime fiction--and to the significance of the Chicago setting. A guide to the scholarly and critical debates is included, along with discussion of media adaptations and references to key websites.
Author : Rosemary Herbert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195072396
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (723 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing written by Rosemary Herbert and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Entertaining and authoritative, this alphabetically arranged companion is an indispensable reference guide to crime and mystery writing. Unique in its biographical and critical treatment of major detective writers, it is a comprehensive digest to the gen
