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Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction).The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who battles the violence of organized crime that flourished during Prohibition (1920–1933) and its aftermath, while dealing with a legal system that has become as corrupt as ...
Description of crimes and detectives. "Locked-room" mysteries. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson mysteries. The Golden Age. Hardboiled American crime-fiction writing. The military veteran as hardboiled protagonist. Modern crime writing. A shift from plot-driven themes to character analysis. Crime fiction in specific themes. LGBT crime fiction.
In its most obvious incarnation detective fiction is to be found under the heading "Crime" in the local bookstore; it includes tales of great detectives like Holmes and Dupin, of police investigators, of private eyes, and little old ladies with a forensic sixth sense.
