SOURCE: Smith, Erin A. “The Hard-Boiled Writer and the Literary Marketplace.” In Hard-Boiled: Working-Class Readers and Pulp Magazines, pp. 18-42. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000.
In the following essay, Smith investigates the pulp magazines, such as Black Mask, that developed the hard-boiled detective story.
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