This is a definition of hard-boiled from MysteryGuide.com.
Pay special attention to the last sentence. No wonder we're
all hardboiled fans.
Books we classify as hard-boiled are set among
criminals rather than
crimefighters. A typical storyline concerns
revenge, vigilante
justice, or the commission (rather than
detection) of a crime; the
classic narrative style is terse, colloquial, and
stripped-down. The
subject matter may include hellish marriages,
sexual abuse, drug and
alcohol addiction, prison life, or other
similarly intense antisocial
experiences. Potential readers should be prepared
for a shocking or
offensive experience if they choose to pick up a
hard-boiled novel.
Our former category Sleaze has been incorporated
into the Hard-boiled
subgenre.
miker
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