Hardboiled mystery writers
Subtitle: Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross Macdonald
By: edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Richard Layman
Contributors: Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph, 1931-; Layman, Richard
Series: Dictionary of literary biography -- v. 6
Publisher: Gale Research Co.
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
Subjects: Chandler, Raymond, -- 1888-1959; Hammett, Dashiell, -- 1894-1961; Macdonald, Ross, -- 1915-1983; American literature -- History and criticism -- Sources; American literature -- 20th century -- Bio-bibliography -- Sources; Detective and mystery stories, American; American fiction -- 20th century -- Bio-bibliography
Notes: "A Bruccoli Clark Layman book."

"Depicting the lives and work of authors--including photographs, manuscript facsimiles, letters, notebooks, interviews, and contemporary assessments."

Includes cumulative index of series, v.1-6