Table of contents for Cracking the hard-boiled detective : a critical history from the 1920s to the present / Lewis D. Moore.

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Contents
Preface	 00
Introduction	 00
 1. Poe, Conan Doyle, and the Hard-Boiled Detective Novel	 00
Early Period
 2. History as Recovery	 00
 3. The Creation of Character	 00
 4. Violence: Direction and Control	 00
 5. Decaying Worlds	 00
 6. Work: Discourse and Danger	 00
 7. Sexuality and Discovery	 00
 8. Friendship: The Absent Theme	 00
Transitional Period
 9. Character in Conflict	 00
10. Pervasive Violence	 00
11. Expanded Space	 000
12. Needed Work	 000
13. Love and Sexuality	 000
14. Friendship: Faint Stirrings	 000
15. The Quality of Change: Individual Lives and Social 
 Transformation	 000
Modern Period
16. Character and Wholeness	 000
17. Violence: Echoes and Conversions	 000
18. Better Places	 000
19. Necessary Work	 000
20. Sexuality and Diversity	 000
21. Surviving Friendship	 000
22. Multiples of Change	 000
23. The Uses of Memory	 000
24. Lies and Deceit: Family	 000
25. Conclusion: Expanding the Word	 000
Bibliography	 000
Index	 000

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism.
Crime in literature.