Booze and the Private Eye: Alcohol in the Hard-Boiled Novel - Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe - Books - McFarland & Co Inc - 9780786418992 - August 4, 2004
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Booze and the Private Eye: Alcohol in the Hard-Boiled Novel

Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe

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Booze and the Private Eye: Alcohol in the Hard-Boiled Novel

This examination of the role of alcohol in hard-boiled detective fiction begins with the genre's birth, in an era influenced and affected by Prohibition, and follows the genre's development and its relation to our changing understanding of and attitudes towards alcohol and alcoholism.


208 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released August 4, 2004
ISBN13 9780786418992
Publishers McFarland & Co Inc
Pages 215
Dimensions 152 × 230 × 13 mm   ·   308 g
Language English  

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