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hard-boiled fiction: Quick Facts

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Master of the hard-boiled detective story
Dashiell Hammett
American writer
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James M. Cain
American novelist
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Ricardo Piglia
Argentine author and critic
Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler
American writer