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A tough, [[Deadpan Snarker|cynical]] guy with a gun and a lot of [[Street Smart|Street Smarts]], who solves mysteries with [[Determinator|dogged persistence]] rather than astounding insight, the [[Hardboiled Detective]] was America's [[Darker and Edgier]] response to the classic ideal of the [[Great Detective]].
The hardboiled detective is generally a [[Knight in Sour Armor]] or even an [[Anti
Originating in the early part of the twentieth century, hardboiled detective stories quickly became a major subgenre of [[Mystery Fiction]]. Later, they became strongly associated with [[Film Noir]]. [[Raymond Chandler]] is considered the master of the genre, but it was [[Humphrey Bogart]]'s depiction of detective Sam Spade in the 1941 film, ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]'' (based on a novel by [[Dashiell Hammett]]), that became the [[Trope Codifier]].
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See also: [[Private Detective]], [[Amateur Sleuth]], [[Film Noir]] and [[Fantastic Noir]]. Contrast with [[Great Detective]], [[Kid Detective]], and [[Little Old Lady Investigates]]. If the character simply provides first-person narration the way detectives in [[Film Noir]] often do, that's [[Private Eye Monologue]].
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== Anime And Manga ==
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* Louis Simo from ''[[Hollywoodland]]'' is a deconstruction loosely based on a real detective, Milo Speriglio.
* The 1971 film ''Gumshoe'', starring Albert Finney, features a London man who decides to adopt a Sam Spade-like persona to escape his boring life, and quickly becomes embroiled in a plot involving drugs, gun smuggling, and gangsters.
* Deckard ([[Harrison Ford]]) from ''[[Blade Runner]]'' is more of a deconstruction, being a [[Sliding Scale of Anti
== Literature ==
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* Sara Paretsky's [[VI Warshawski]] is a distaff version of the (usually) male hardboiled detective.
* Lazlo Woodbine, from the [[Far Fetched Fiction]] of [[Robert Rankin]], is a blatant parody. He insists on using the first person, getting knocked unconscious at his first appearance and can only appear in four scenes (his office, a bar, an alleyway and a rooftop). Considering the outlandish nature of his books, often involving things such as [[Time Travel|time-traveling]] Elvis doing battle with [[Eldritch Abominations]] out to unmake existence, this makes things awkward.
* Eddie Valiant from ''[[Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (Literature)]]'' is an homage.
* 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.
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