Literary Masterpieces: The Maltese Falcon - Volume 3 (Gale Study Guides To Great Literature)
by George Parker Anderson, Joel Myerson, Julie B. Anderson
Category: Biography & Autobiography

Essays on American writers whose lives and careers span the history of hard-boiled writing, from its birth in American pulp magazines of the 1920s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Characteristic of this writing is an objective viewpoint, impersonal tone, violent action, colloquial speech, tough characters and understated style, usually but not limited to detective or crime fiction.