![]() ![]() Relying on pulp magazine advertising, the memoirs of writers and publishers, Depression-era studies of adult reading habits, social and labor history, Smith offers an innovative account of how these popular stories were generated and read. Smith examines the culture that produced and supported this form of detective story through the 1940s. The OC hard-boiledOCO stories published in "Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly," and "Clues" featured a new kind of hero and soon challenged the popularity of the British mysteries that held readers in thrall on both sides of the Atlantic. In the 1920s a distinctively American detective fiction emerged from the pages of pulp magazines. ![]() Relying on pulp magazine advertising, the. ![]() ![]()
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