Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir John T. Irwin

Early in the twentieth century a new character type emerged in the crime novels of American writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler: the "hard-boiled" detective, most famously exemplified by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. Unlike Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir (John T. Irwin)