{"product_id":"hardboiled-working-class-readers-and-pulp-magazines-9781566397698","title":"Hard-Boiled: Working Class Readers and Pulp Magazines","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHard-Boiled: Working Class Readers and Pulp Magazines\u003c\/strong\u003e by Erin A. Smith. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781566397698.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the 1920s a distinctively American detective fiction emerged from the pages of pulp magazines. The hard-boiled stories published in Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly and Clues featured a new kind of hero and soon challenged the popularity of the British mysteries that held readers in thrall on both sides of the Atlantic. In Hard-Boiled, Erin A. Smith examines the culture that produced and supported this form of detective story through the 1940s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44977897373749,"sku":"ByrdShop_1566397693","price":37.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781566397698_cc4f9bc9-ed51-41d0-9213-9a6ee69d6ab5.jpg?v=1778790531","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/hardboiled-working-class-readers-and-pulp-magazines-9781566397698","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}