Hardboiled
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Hardboiled fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction. The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who battles the violence of organized crime th
The cover of seminal hardboiled magazine Black Mask, September 1929, featuring part 1 of its serialization of The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett. Illustration of private eye Sam Spade by Henry C. Murphy Jr.
Photo by Paolo Monti, 1975
Noir fiction
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Noir fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction. The term noir comes from the French word for "black".
Hardboiled
…or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction). The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who battles the violence of organized crime that flourished during Prohibition in the United States…
The cover of The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson, an example of noir fiction.