Hard-Boiled Literary Genre

Category Description:

Housed here are portals for the hard-boiled style of writing. This style of writing is generally used in mysteries, film noir, and crime fiction.

See Also:

American Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction, 1920s-1940s - Looks at history, publications, authors, and related resources.
Detective Novel - Features a French author named, Francois-Eugene Vidocq. He was the first to introduce the characteristics and plots of mysteries and discoveries in detective stories or novels.
Hardboiled Heaven - Attempts to define this type of fiction, and includes websites, interviews, reading checklists, and pages of paperback cover images.
The Hard-boiled Way - Article relates what it is, common themes, attitudes, behaviors, with information on well-known and more obscure writers of hard-boiled fiction.
Mystery Net: Hard-Boiled Mysteries - Timeline looks at birth of the genre in pulp magazines, as well as two representative authors.
Twists, Slugs and Roscoes - Collection of hardboiled slang novels. Compiled by William Denton.

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