This compilation lists 646 citations of books, articles, essays, reviews, and dissertations related to the fiction and lives of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandl

Among the many writers who lent their talents to the creation of hard-boiled detective fiction, few have approached it from a more original perspective than Che

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A thorough - and thoroughly enjoyable - look at the genre of the feminist crime novel in Britain and the United States. A pioneering work in the field and an in

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