Hard-boiled sentimentality : the secret history of American crime stories /
Cassuto, Leonard,1960-
New York, [N.Y.] ; Chichester : Columbia University Press,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-309) and index.
Detective and mystery stories, American
American fiction
Domestic fiction, American
American fiction
American fiction
Women and literature
Masculinity in literature.
Detective and mystery films