KnowraHardboiled fictionLinked fromLinked fromThe 23 pages that link to Hardboiled fiction, each with the reason it gives.All 23Broader topic 1Related 3Narrower topic 12Compared with 7Dashiell HammettNarrower topic: Hammett helped define this broader mode through his terse prose and professional detectives.Raymond ChandlerNarrower topic: Chandler reshaped this tradition through Marlowe’s wit and vulnerability.Sam SpadeNarrower topic: Spade is a defining detective of the genre’s early literary form.The Big LebowskiNarrower topic: The film borrows its mysteries and shady dealings while undercutting the genre’s tough-guy pose.James M. CainNarrower topic: Cain’s novels became central examples of hardboiled fiction focused on criminals rather than detectives.Philip MarloweNarrower topic: Marlowe is one of the genre’s defining private detectives.Jonathan LethemNarrower topic: Its detective conventions provide the framework Lethem transforms in several novels.Ross MacdonaldNarrower topic: Macdonald inherited its private-eye framework while giving its mysteries a deeper family focus.James EllroyNarrower topic: Ellroy reshapes this tradition with compressed prose and sprawling historical conspiracies.Mickey SpillaneNarrower topic: Spillane’s novels became a defining popular expression of this genre.Rex StoutNarrower topic: Stout’s brisk dialogue and streetwise Archie connect the Wolfe books to this tradition.Sue GraftonNarrower topic: Grafton adapted its unsentimental detective voice to a woman working outside police institutions.