The Truman gumshoes : the postwar detective fiction of Mickey Spillane, Ross Macdonald, Wade Miller and Bart Spicer / J. K. Van Dover.

""The hard-boiled style of detective fiction emerged in America in the years after the First World War. In the late 1940s, following the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, a new generation of young writers revisited the conventions governing the fictional private eye, and began to m...

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