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The History of the Hard-Boiled Detective

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November 19, 2013

 

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His character, Terry Mack, was quick to fight, was quick to shoot and he made plenty of wise-cracks (Marling). This character is what defined hard-boiled detective fiction and is the prototype for thousands of other detectives. To really understand what sets hard-boiled fiction apart from other type of detective fiction you need to know about the history of detective fiction up to when hard-boiled fiction was invented...
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The first appearance of a detective like character was the fox in Aesop's fables. In one story the fox decided not to enter a hungry lion's cave when he saw that there were many animal footprints going into the cave but none coming out ("Detective Fiction," Literary). Another ancient detective was Daniel from the Bible...
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