Unless the threat of death is behind them: Hard-boiled fiction and film noir

Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-290

  Irwin, John T ^a  

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