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Detectives in the Shadows : A Hard-Boiled History /

"Crime fiction expert Susanna Lee tracks the evolution of the hard-boiled character type over time and media in the United States. She shows how crime fiction rose in popularity at times of national conflict. Readers and viewers crave the sort of grit and independence that the hard-boiled detec...

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Autor principal: Lee, Susanna, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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