Hardboiled

[F] rom the start it projects you into the involved and unhealthy atmosphere of the 'hardboiled' detective thriller (Hammett-Chandler: Bogart-Alan Ladd), in which violence and intrigue have acquired a new, sadistic dimension. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And Fredric Brown's The Fabulous Clipjoint which creates a kind of hardboiled lyricism for the desperate world it shows us. ❋ Ed Gorman (2008)

And while all of us read back and forth across the decades, there's definitely a new style, a new voice, a new take on the kind of hardboiled crime fiction Bill and I grew up reading. ❋ Ed Gorman (2008)

In college, during Detective Fiction class, I remember hearing about "hardboiled" detectives, and that was certainly a descriptive phrase, but if those stories were all about how some woman or another could reduce the hero to a quivering mass of gelatin, perhaps these heroes needed another minute or two in the boiling water. ❋ Unknown (2006)

This is my kind of hardboiled, a beleivable low life in a beleivably low life situation with none of the feigned neo-noir posturing or the tough guy crapola of so much Fifties hardboiled. ❋ Ed Gorman (2007)

Bruce Grossman usually devotes his Bullets, Broads, Blackmail & Bombs column to the kind of hardboiled, pulpy, spy-thriller and aggressor-ish stuff that suggests, but to celebrate the 66th installment, he's covering some groovy horror paperbacks! ❋ Unknown (2007)

For instance, for his first novel, much of the inspiration came from seeing Neuromancer called "hardboiled SF" and feeling that it wasn't, that "hardboiled" is a term for a very specific form of writing. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Besides, count me as one who actually prefers the earlier "hardboiled" approach to the later funnier episodes. ❋ Lauren Miller (2010)

Let me put it this way: I'm current re-reading Michael Chabon's 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union' which is alternate world SF and a wonderful homage to "hardboiled" pulp fiction and a moving exploration of familial and marital relationships that wouldn't be out of place in a ❋ Unknown (2009)

She’s every bar floozie you ever met and yet she transcends the stereotype by having a kind of hardboiled street intelligence. ❋ Ed Gorman (2008)