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The square piece of paper lay between our knees as we sat cross-legged on the green grass beneath the even greener trees. "Turn it over." He said, his voice rough and anxious. We were the only people left in the park by then, completely alone in the darkening summer night. Even then, i didn't feel comfortable revealing the secret overleaf; i could feel his eyes boring into me, though I couldn't see them. I could hear his breath, heavy, over the trickling of the stream at the end of the park and the purr of the wind through the foliage. My heart skipped a beat when i heard his voice again. It reminded me of chocolate mousse, deep, rich and cre

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The Genres of Crime Writing

Hard Boiled
Some Historical Stuff:
Personally, when I’m writing within a certain genre, I like to understand where it comes from. I understand if you do not have the same curiosity, but hopefully this is interesting anyway.
The hardboiled style emerged post WW1 from pulp fiction –cheap and accessible prose, usually written anonymously and within formulaic conventions. It grafted the English Holmes characters to attributes previously conceptualised as criminal (violence, alienation, rejection of conventional ethos. Although it is to be noted, that hardboiled prot by `poprocksandcharlotte

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*sonicbutterfly 7 hours 30 minutes ago

Ooooooooh, thank you and good luck.

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