The actor had played his last serious role as a hard-boiled detective, and would subsequently parody his own typecasting in a set of comical and mediocre police movies throughout the decade that ...

Hard-boiled crime meets alternative history in ‘Cahokia Jazz’ Francis Spufford’s new novel is set in an America that’s recognizable yet disquietingly not ...

Our crime columnist recommends books starring hard-boiled investigators who are ready to travel down the meanest streets to root out the darkest truths.

Gene Hackman will forever be remembered by movies, many of which in he plays a variation on the hard-boiled police detective persona he crafted in the early 1970s, such as The French Connection ...

Dashiell Hammett, the well-known author of “The Maltese Falcon” and “The Thin Man,” established a newspaper called the Adakian during his stint on the island.

Released in 1992, Hard Boiled still stands as Hong Kong film director John Woo Yu-sum’s most accomplished work. Starring Chow Yun-fat as a tough police officer out to avenge a friend’s death ...

Experts reveal the painstaking restoration behind John Woo's action classic 'Hard Boiled' ahead of its Cannes Classics screening.

Duck Detective: The Secret Salami, released on May 23 by Happy Broccoli Games, turns the down-on-his-luck, hard-boiled detective trope on its head — then makes it quack.

Padura’s main character, Mario Conde, is a hard-boiled police detective who disdains ideology (despite majoring in “dialectical materialism” at university), observing in “Havana Red ...

Thomas Mullen's "The Rumor Game" a hard-boiled detective story about Nazi sympathizers in WWII-era Boston.