Booze and the private eye : alcohol in the hard-boiled novel
Finalist Edgar Allan Poe Award--Mystery Writers of America. "Good book ... well written and persuasively argued"--Mystery Scene. This examination of the role of alcohol in hard-boiled detective fiction begins with the genre's birth, in an era strongly influenced and affected by prohibition, and follows both the genre's development and its relation to our changing understanding of and attitudes towards alcohol and alcoholism. It discusses the works of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, Robert B. Parker, Lawrence Block, Marcia Muller, Karen Kijewski and Sue Grafton
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (vii, 207 pages)
9780786481538, 0786481536
650035331
Dashiell Hammett : "Behind in our drinking"
Raymond Chandler : "Alcohol was not cure for this"
Mickey Spillane : "Can't spell cognac"
Robert B. Parker : "This was no job for a poet"
Lawrence Block : "A wide-awake drunk"
"Groomed to this end for years" : the rise of the woman PI
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010