I'm sure the French were the first to use the expression
"noir" to include (though perhaps not to describe) hard-boiled
fiction. However, I would be hesitant to allow our
definition of the category to be defined by a country that
believes Jerry Lewis is the comic genius of his time.
Jeremiah Healy
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