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Beginning in the 1970s, a new generation of writers took over the hard-boiled story (created by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett) and transformed it to fit the realities of their world-a universe infected by violence, greed, racism, sexism, war, and commercialism. Their protagonists, too, are far different from Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.LeRoy Lad Panek is the author of 'New Hard-Boiled Writers: 1970s-1990s', published 2000 under ISBN 9780879728199 and ISBN 0879728191.
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