Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories

Leonard Cassuto

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Paper, 344 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12691-5
$27.50 / £19.00

October, 2008
Cloth, 344 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12690-8
$79.50 / £55.00

"This is an erudite, illuminating and highly readable study" — Andrew Pepper, Journal of American StudiesQueen's University, Belfast

"Cassuto has profitably plowed new ground in this study. It's certain to become an essential document for undersatnding crime fiction's inner workings." — Lawrence E. Hussman, Jr., African American ReviewWright State Universtiy, Emeritus

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