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Selected Hardboiled Crime and Mystery Sites
These are the most useful and interesting sites on the Web which focus on hardboiled crime and mystery fiction.
Thrilling Detective Web Site
Kevin Smith's great-looking site offers new fiction every month, a complete annotated listing of fictional private eyes, plus listings of films, TV shows, radio shows, comics, trivia, you name it. He's even got my Crockett novels listed!
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Twists, Slugs and Roscoes
Subtitled "A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang," this is an amazingly complete collection of every slang term you've ever heard or read in a work of hardboiled fiction, from "ameche" to "yegg." Now you can talk just like the characters from "Black Mask."
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Rara-Avis
Named after a term from The Maltese Falcon, this site offers a list of hardboiled authors, most with lists of links; some wonderful covers from hardboiled novels of the 50s, with links to other covers; a mailing list; and more.
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Hardboiled Heaven
A hardboiled crime and mystery checklist is the core feature of this site, along with a collection of paperback covers, an interview, links, and more.
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Networking with other Hardboiled Crime and Mystery Fiction Fans
Rara-Avis Hardboiled Mailing List
Communicate with other hard-boiled mystery fans through your email box! This is the mailing list I mentioned above. If you're a fan then you'll want to sign up. Be sure to view the archives to see what you've missed and check out the reading list for the latest story or novel so you can participate in the latest discussion.
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