The cynical but kind-hearted detective is the soul of the classic Hard-Boiled story, that chronicle of world-weary urban pessimism.
In this major rethinking of the Hard-Boiled genre, Lee suggests that, whethe.
In Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Decline of Moral Authority , Susanna Lee argues that this Fiction functions as a measure for individual responsibility in the modern world and that it demonstrates the enduring status of individual conscience across a variety of cultural crises.
The cynical but kind-hearted detective is the soul of the classic Hard-Boiled story, that chronicle of world-weary urban pessimism