The cynical but kind-hearted detective is the soul of the classic hard-boiled story, that chronicle of world-weary urban pessimism.
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.
In this major rethinking of the hard-boiled genre, Lee suggests that, whethe.
Ohio State University Press Hard-boiled crime fiction and the decline of moral authority, paperback/susanna lee
