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    Veronica Mars Untoiled

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    Hardboiled emphasizes a protagonist that is presented with a cynical attitude or voice. Hardboiled typically features an inner monologue of a detective, which has been used widely by authors and creators of detective fiction. Veronica Mars genre is an example of hardboiled detective fiction where the main character is a teenage girl who adds the sarcastic inner monologue to the series, which is a different and modern take on hardboiled fiction. Veronica Mars is a young woman who attends Neptune

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    Hardboiled American detectives, such as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep, follow a general code of ethics in which they portray themselves as tough guys with no feelings or emotional attachments to anything, who willingly get into violent fights and resolve what the police cannot solve. They are presented as detectives who are independent in nature and have more wit than the rest of the characters in the novels. In the case of Lew Archer in The Galton Case, it is

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    solve crimes, which is more than the village vicar or the head of the gardening club can say. These situations will definitely make a curiosity in eyes of the reader than the normal occasions. The Setting As we discussed earlier the setting for hardboiled detective fiction is usually a large city, an urban area, or an industrial area. The cities tend to be dark, dangerous places run by corrupt politicians, gangster syndicates, and an occasional corrupt police officer. Often the stories themselves

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    Devil in a Blue Dress: Novel vs. Film The hardboiled mystery novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, by Walter Mosley was first published in 1990 and was acknowledged by former U.S. President, Bill Clinton, as one of his many favorite novelists (Easy Writer). Taking place in post-war Los Angeles, the story is narrated by an African American laborer, Easy Rawlins, who is transformed into an L.A. detective after being pulled in to the affairs of local townspeople. The successful novel continued onto screen

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    Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled detective novel, The Big Sleep is a story of murder mysteries, revelations, blackmailing and lies that the private detective Philip Marlowe gets caught up in. Marlowe is a private detective who is hired by the millionaire General Sternwood to tackle a blackmail attempt on his one of the two wild daughters, Carmen Sternwood by a man named Arthur Geiger. Arthur Geiger is a bookseller; therefore, Marlowe begins to investigate about his bookstore. Consequently, he meets

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    camera work, settings, characters, plot and themes. The films involve mystery solving by detectives, in addition to a revolution on the crime and the corrupted people, And dark themes and a sense of unsolved problems and evil. The big sleep involves hardboiled character, which is the masculine strong detective in The Big Sleep he was hired by a rich man to solve a blackmail mystery. The movie shows all the events take place in the city, which symbolizes the darkness,corruption and that people that live

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    Film Review of The Big Sleep The Big Sleep was originally written as a novel in 1939 by Raymond Chandler. Philp Marlowe, a private investigator was hired by a wealthy general to help in resolve the blackmailing and gambling debts of his wild daughter, Carmen. Things get off to a quick start in the movie and it immediately begins to unravel, Marlowe suddenly had found himself in a deep web of love triangles, blackmail, murder, gambling, and organized crime. Vivian the oldest daughter of the general

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    ubiquitous reach of organized crime. Mr. Hammett draws inspiration from his own experiences both as a young man working for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency and his time serving in the Army (PBS, 1). The story, a pristine specimen of the hardboiled detective genre, captures not only the edge-of-your-seat emotions of mystery, but also the grueling realism and brutality of organized crime. Despite my overwhelmingly positive response to the story, it is not a flawless work. Mr. Hammett occasionally

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    Major Works The following list is a great start for those who want to read the classic hard-boiled stories that have defined what is meant by a hard boiled fiction. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain. It caused a scandal with its explosive mix of violence and sex. The torrid story of Frank Chambers, the amoral drifter, Cora, the sullen and brooding wife, and Nick Papadakis, the amiable but inconvenient husband, has become a classic of its kind,

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    What does it mean for a book to be a classic? When something is a classic, it has been judged over a long period of time and come to be considered one of the best of its kind. So a classic book is one that has tested time, teaches a lesson, entertains many audiences, and changes your perspective or values after reading the book. Some examples of classic books would be Moby Dick, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Hobbit. The Maltese Falcon, an exceptional book written by Dashiell Hammett, is filled with

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