The Hard-Boiled Detectives: A Look into the Gritty World of Noir Fiction
The crime fiction genre was nothing new when hard-boiled detective fiction emerged in the United States during the early 20th century. This subgenre has its roots in the pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s. From there, it evolved into a popular-and now respectable-literary genre. But before going into more detail about the evolution of…