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Tables of Contents for Hardboiled America
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the First Edition
1
4
Preface to the Second Edition
5
2
Chapter One: Icons on Yellow Paper
7
12
Chapter Two: Origins of the Paperbacks
19
16
Chapter Three: A Disposable Gallery
35
26
Chapter Four: Mythologists of the Hardboiled
61
40
Chapter Five: The Paperback Detective and His Discontent
101
38
Chapter Six: Afternoon of the Fifties
139
32
Epilogue: The Long Morning After
171
6
Appendix: The Hardboiled Era: A Checklist, 1920-1960
177
12
Selected Bibliography
189
4
Index
193