Noir by Robert Coover
The detective story may have started out as a literary genre, but over time its conventions have been increasingly shaped by motion pictures. Our sense of the right ingredients for a mystery owe more to Hollywood—The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Big Sleep (1946), Chinatown (1974), LA Confidential (1997) and other classic films—than to any novel or short s…
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