Briefcases for Hire: American Hardboiled to Legal Fiction

Journal of American Culture

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 307-320

  Swirski, Peter ^a   Wong, Faye ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 84899380008     PISSN: 15427331     EISSN: 1542734X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-734X.2006.00373.x     Document Type: Note

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