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* Conrad Metcalf, the protagonist of Jonathan Lethem's ''Gun, With Occasional Music'' is a hard-boiled detective in a world that doesn't really have a use for them anymore.
* Kinsey Milhone from Sue Grafton's "alphabet mysteries" is another example of a female hard-boiled detective.
* [[Magnum, P.I.]]: is a crossover between hardboiled and cozy but it is mostly hardboiled. Magnum is a character more typical of hardboiled. While he isn't cynical per se, he depends a lot on his street smarts. Moreover the setting often includes sorties into the more [[Wretched Hive|vice ridden]] parts of Honolulu. On the other hand, Magnum has a standing room-and-board contract as a security agent for a rich playboy, and mingles with the upper class regularly. Furthermore some episodes resemble cozies more then hardboileds.▼
== Live Action TV ==
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* In a [[Storybook Episode]] of ''[[Fringe]]'', Walter casts Olivia as this.
* [[Magnum, P.I.]] has the [[Private Eye Monologue|voice over]] and cynicism, but wears loud hawaiian shirts instead of a trenchcoat,
▲** [[Magnum, P.I.]]: is a crossover between hardboiled and cozy but it is mostly hardboiled. Magnum is a character more typical of hardboiled. While he isn't cynical per se, he depends a lot on his street smarts. Moreover the setting often includes sorties into the more [[Wretched Hive|vice ridden]] parts of Honolulu. On the other hand, Magnum has a standing room-and-board contract as a security agent for a rich playboy, and mingles with the upper class regularly. Furthermore some episodes resemble cozies more then hardboileds.
== Newspaper Comics ==
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