Through his long writing career, Morley Callaghan's hard-boiled style won him critical praise in his native Canada and throughout the English-speaking world.

As Cedric remarked, in his hard-boiled style, Clabb looked as though he'd invented a new form of pretzel and had decided to model it.

Originally written in the third person, it was rewritten in the first person in a more "hard-boiled" style.

Ms. Vachss tells her story in the hard-boiled, cliched but entertaining style of contemporary feminist detective fiction.

"I've cut up a lot of corpses in my time," he proclaims in true hard-boiled style, "but I've never found the place where the soul might have been."

He wrote in the classic hard-boiled style made famous by Mickey Spillane and Dashiell Hammett.

Some were merely sleazy, but others were in a tough, hard-boiled style that seemed somehow more knowing and more contemporary than that of the surviving pulps.

Others, such as Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, had a more hard-boiled, American style.

This mobile voyeurism, cynical and alienated, helped inspire the hard-boiled literary style so closely associated with Los Angeles.

Her staccato, hard-boiled style of conversation suggests how Claire Trevor might have sounded in a late 1940's movie set in a Chicago saloon.