Most of the major exhibitions have also included stories, either in the catalog or displayed directly on the walls, written in a style that recalls hard-boiled fiction.

George Pelecanos writes hard-boiled fiction with heart.

Ken Bruen frequently incorporates tributes to Derek Raymond into his hard-boiled fiction.

When Connelly attempts to move beyond meat and potatoes reporting, you get the impression of a reporter trying to squeeze reality into the confines of hard-boiled fiction.

L.B.: In the earliest American hard-boiled fiction, there were heroes who were virtually criminals themselves.

It has several sub-genres, including detective fiction (such as the whodunit), legal thriller, courtroom drama and hard-boiled fiction.

What distinguishes Rebus is that he may just be the warmest recurring character in contemporary hard-boiled fiction.

Send-ups of hard-boiled fiction and pseudointellectuals have become so common that at times the parody can seem like a parody of itself.

As in low comedy, the prime motivators of hard-boiled fiction are greed and lust, and the leading actors are often the butt of the joke.

James M. Cain abandoned hard-boiled fiction to toil miserably for years on a virtually unpublishable Civil War novel.