In the 1920s 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 1940s. Relying on pulp magazine advertising, the memoirs of writers and publishers, Depression-era studies of adult...
In the 1920s a distinctively American detective fiction emerged from the pages of pulp magazines. The 'hard-boiled' stories published in "Black Mask",...
