Titlebook: American Crime Fiction; Studies in the Genre Brian Docherty (Founder Member of Lumiere Press) Book 1988 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of M

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,Investigating the Investigator: Hammett’s Continental Op,American ‘golden age’, whose ‘main emphasis was on plot … ingenuity, surprise [and] suspense’,. he wrote about prohibition, gangsterism and corruption. The argument continues that his detectives, particularly the Continental Op and Sam Spade, were not remote, omniscient figures but involved, fallibl

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,Radical Anger: Dashiell Hammett’s ,tholic family, he worked for some years as an investigator for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, which often functioned as the private police of America’s mineowners.. Both world wars found him willing to defend America, but in the 1950s he appeared in court, and before Senator McCarthy’s Senate Inter

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Exploding the Genre: The Crime Fiction of Jerome Charyn,tered. For a whole range of American writers, from Hammett and Chandler to McBain, Himes and Ross McDonald, death and disappearance are, in contrast, part of a shared notion of what constitutes the dangerous irrationality of contemporary experience. It is clear that the differences between the Engli

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