Through the study of three writers, pillars of the hardboiled crime genre, perhaps we may begin to understand the intrinsic strengths of this genre, strengths which are now sometimes found buried beneath layers of cliché.
“I Married a Deadman” echoes the sense of doom and personal impotence found in much of Cornell Woolrich’s fiction. Francis Nevins called Woolrich “the Poe of the 20th century and the poet of its shadows, the Hitchcock of the written word”.
Some old favourites of the genre are being re-released, and many new ones are hitting the shelves. Here are five reviews of the latest greatest in pulp noir.
I suppose we could have used the title 'not safe for anyone' many times already, but I thought it would be especially pertinent here because in this show Richard and Hans illustrate the many situations in which the C-word is perfectly appropriate.
