hardboiled

[F] rom the start it projects you into the involved and unhealthy atmosphere of the 'hardboiled' detective thriller (Hammett-Chandler: Bogart-Alan Ladd), in which violence and intrigue have acquired a new, sadistic dimension.

Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

And while all of us read back and forth across the decades, there's definitely a new style, a new voice, a new take on the kind of hardboiled crime fiction Bill and I grew up reading.

Generations Ed Gorman 2008

And Fredric Brown's The Fabulous Clipjoint which creates a kind of hardboiled lyricism for the desperate world it shows us.

Forgotten Books - Nightmare Alley Ed Gorman 2008

And while all of us read back and forth across the decades, there's definitely a new style, a new voice, a new take on the kind of hardboiled crime fiction Bill and I grew up reading.

Archive 2008-01-01 Ed Gorman 2008

In college, during Detective Fiction class, I remember hearing about "hardboiled" detectives, and that was certainly a descriptive phrase, but if those stories were all about how some woman or another could reduce the hero to a quivering mass of gelatin, perhaps these heroes needed another minute or two in the boiling water.

June 2006 2006

And Fredric Brown's The Fabulous Clipjoint which creates a kind of hardboiled lyricism for the desperate world it shows us.

Archive 2008-06-01 Ed Gorman 2008

In college, during Detective Fiction class, I remember hearing about "hardboiled" detectives, and that was certainly a descriptive phrase, but if those stories were all about how some woman or another could reduce the hero to a quivering mass of gelatin, perhaps these heroes needed another minute or two in the boiling water.

Cozy Up to the Bar, Pal 2006

This is my kind of hardboiled, a beleivable low life in a beleivably low life situation with none of the feigned neo-noir posturing or the tough guy crapola of so much Fifties hardboiled.

Hard Case--Lawrence Block; Richard S. Prather Ed Gorman 2007

This is my kind of hardboiled, a beleivable low life in a beleivably low life situation with none of the feigned neo-noir posturing or the tough guy crapola of so much Fifties hardboiled.

Archive 2007-03-01 Ed Gorman 2007

Bruce Grossman usually devotes his Bullets, Broads, Blackmail & Bombs column to the kind of hardboiled, pulpy, spy-thriller and aggressor-ish stuff that suggests, but to celebrate the 66th installment, he's covering some groovy horror paperbacks!

Bookgasm goes groovy! 2007