title: Hardboiled, Noir and Gold Medals: Essays on Crime Fiction Writers from the 50s through the 90s
author:  Rick Ollerman 
description: Rick Ollerman s detailed critical essays, written about both modern and classic crime writers, have an electric-charged verve so brilliant the modern reader is compelled to develop a new understanding, a new appreciation, even a new witnessing of the writers and their most important and influential works. The context is always truthful to the era of creation, but it is fully developed with a modern understanding that brings new revelation to seemingly old topics. Which is a hard way of saying, Mr. Ollerman writes about crime fiction and its crafters brilliantly. --Benjamin Boulden, critic/essayist<br /><br />An introduction by Rick Ollerman is always a promise of insightful, informative, and entertaining details about the author or topic. His essays are as valuable as the restored fiction that follows. --Alan Cranis, Bookgasm<br /><br />Reading one of Rick Ollerman s essays is like sitting in a master class on the writer. Having all of the essays in one collection is like getting a master s degree. This is an important book and a must-have for anybody who cares about good criticism, about the writers discussed, and about crime fiction in general. --Bill Crider, mystery author
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  Copyright © 2018 by Jeremy Bates
  
  All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or
  used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the
  publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly
  journal.
  
  First Printing: 2018
  
  ISBN : 978-1-988091-20-4
  
    
  
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  Writers of Canada The Lou Allin Memorial Award.
  
  CONTENTS
  
  _THE MAILMAN_
  
  _CHAPTER 1_
  
  _CHAPTER 2_
  
  _CHAPTER 3_
  
  _CHAPTER 4_
  
  _CHAPTER 5_
  
  _CHAPTER 6_
  
  _CHAPTER 7_
  
  _CHAPTER 8_
  
  _CHAPTER 9_
  
  _CHAPTER 10_
  
  _CHAPTER 11_
  
  _CHAPTER 12_
  
  _CHAPTER 13_
  
  _CHAPTER 14_
  
  _CHAPTER 15_
  
  _CHAPTER 16_
  
  _CHAPTER 17_
  
  _CHAPTER 18_
  
  _CHAPTER 19_
  
  _CHAPTER 20_
  
  _CHAPTER 21_
  
  _CHAPTER 22_
  
  _CHAPTER 23_
  
  _EPILOGUE_
  
  _SIX BULLETS_
  
  _FROM THE DIARY OF BURT RIDLEY JAMES, KNOWN AS “BURTSY” TO FAMILY AND FR