Hard-boiled detective

Female Characters in The Long Goodbye: Typical Images of Women in the Noir World As one of the most famous hard-boiled crime fictions, The Long Goodbye enjoys its reputation not only for the story itself, but also for its delicate social criticism. In fact, this novel is representative of how female characters are formed in the noir world. There are basically three main female characters in the book: the victim Sylvia Lennox, her sister Linda Loring, and the criminal (or villain) Eileen Wade. These

We Live in Water is a book of short stories written by the postmodern American novelist, Jess Walter. Postmodernist fiction is a form of literature that began after World War II, which offered new and interesting ways to look at society and the arts (Hogue). There are a number of stylistic techniques that are often used in postmodern literature, such as parody, pastiche, fragmentation, and playfulness (Fleming). Though pastiche is the most prominent in We live in Water. Pastiche is generally the

Lisa (Jeff’s partner) justifies her views by saying, “Lots of wives nag and men hate them, and trouble starts – but very, very, very few of them end up in murder –” to which Jeff replies, “It’s pretty hard to stay away from the word (murder) isn’t it?” reflecting what the audience of their context might have been thinking. Family values are embedded into the minds of people of that context as Stella (nurse) holds a belief that; “A man is always ready

McDermid’s Place of Execution both adheres to and combines elements in of sub genres and crime fiction. The blend that McDermid has expertly used showcases the best of each category. The novel is a fascinating combination of the police procedural/hard-boiled detective and the puzzle mystery. While the novel itself is officially classified as fiction, McDermid’s use of actual news reports from the Moors Murders that took place at the same time the novel is set in, adds an eerie element of the True Crime

enough that he can speak English ‘if he's required to'. Marlowe used to work for the district attorney, but was fired for insubordination. Philip Marlowe, a private detective. Tall, dark, and rugged, with a poker face and a quick wit, he is attractive to women but wary of them and of all entanglements. Though cynical and hard-boiled, and a heavy drinker capable of violence, Marlowe is idealistic, even puritanical. Contemptuous of money, he is an honest loner in a corrupt

home, than he gives up any hopes of recovering his original identity, of returning to the old Quinn and he ends up disintegrating, dying, and in consequence, failing to solve Stillman's case. Furthermore, another aspect that is related to the hard-boiled formula is the disruption of the detective's private life, the

because it has femme fatales that lie and use sex to get what they want and hard boiled detectives that always want to know too much just like in The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks) and Chinatown (Roman Polanski). In film noir femme fatales constantly lie, whether it’s to protect themselves from going to jail or protecting their embarrassing past. Femme fatales will go to the end of the earth to keep the truth from the Hard Boiled Detective or anyone who thinks will get in their way. In the movie The Big Sleep

“The Gutting of Couffignal” is a detective fiction short story written by Dashiell Hammett that focuses on the mystery surrounding the attack on the town of Couffignal by an unknown gang, and more specifically, the robberies and murders that ensue. Hammett’s story is classified as hard-boiled fiction, which Encyclopaedia Britannica defines as a “tough, unsentimental style of American crime writing” (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica). Due to its hard-boiled nature, “The Gutting of Couffignal”

luxury train, the Orient Express. While aboard the train a billionaire is murdered under mysterious circumstances. Unfortunately for the victim, amateur detective Hercule Poirot happens to be a passenger aboard the train and is there to solve the case. On the other end of the crime fiction genre is the ‘hard-boiled’ or ‘golden age’ sub-genre. Hard- boiled crime is more typically puzzle driven as opposed to cosy crime. Dashiell Hammett’s ‘The Creeping Siamese’ is a perfect example of crime fiction once

How to Write Noir Fiction The Merriam-Webster Dictionary (n.d) defines noir as “crime fiction featuring hard-boiled[,] cynical characters and bleak[,] sleazy settings.” However, it could be asserted that “claustrophobic” would be a better descriptor, in place of “sleazy.” Noir comes from “film noir,” which means “black cinema,” and was a term coined in France in reference to a particular subset of Hollywood films that were permeated with previously unseen levels of cynicism or disillusionment (Hoerneman