The noir thriller
Horsley, Lee, (1944-)

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    Title/Author: The noir thriller/ Lee Horsley.
    Author: Horsley, Lee,
    Published: New York :Palgrave, : 2001.,
    Description: xi, 305 p. :ill.
    [NT 15003449]: Dedication -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: 1920-45 --Hard-boiled Investigators -- Big-shot Gangsters and Small-time Crooks -- Victims of Circumstance --PART II: 1945-70-- Fatal Men -- Fatal Women -- Strangers and Outcasts -- PART III: 1970-2000 -- Players, Voyeurs and Consumers -- Pasts and Futures -- Bibliography -- Index.
    [NT 15003449]: Part I: 1920-45. Hard-boiled investigators ; From pulp to heroes to poisonville ; Beautiful manners and flawless English ; 'The hardest of the hard-boilers' ; Big-shot gangsters and small-time crooks ; Gutter Macbeths ; Also-rans, has-beens, and other losers ; Britain's armless bandits ; Victims of circumstance ; American dreams ; European nightmares-- Part II: 1945-70. Fatal men ; Revenge-seekers ; Money-grubbers and social climbers ; Psychopaths ; Fatal women ; Tramps and tomboys ; Seeing double ; Seeing through men ; Strangers and outcasts ; Displaced persons ; Civil wrongs ; Rage inHarlem -- Part III: 1970-2000. Players, voyeurs and consumers ; Players and their games ; The eyes of the beholders ; All-consuming quests ; Pasts and futures ; A hell of a city ; Themean streets of the metaverse ; Invitations to the underworld.
    Subject: American fiction - History and criticism. - 20th century -
    Online resource: http://link.springer.com/10.1057/9780230280755access to fulltext (Palgrave)
    ISBN: 0230280757
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