Jaber, Maysaa Husam. <br/><br/>
Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (222 pages) 
 - Crime Files Series .
 - Crime Files Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The " Mad-Bad" Criminal Woman -- Part I: Pre-War Criminal Femmes Fatales -- 2 Narratives of the Underworld: Violence and Dangerous Femininity in Dashiell Hammett's Labyrinthine Criminal World -- 3 Narratives of Detection: Femme Fatality and the Detective "Hero" in Raymond Chandler's Fiction -- 4 Narratives of Seduction: The Criminal Femme Fatale and the "Forbidden Box" in James M. Cain -- Part II: Post-War Criminal Femmes Fatales -- 5 Crime, Sex, and Paranoia in Post-War Hardboiled Paperbacks -- 6 The Duality of David Goodis's Criminal Femmes Fatales -- 7 Mickey Spillane's C riminal Femmes Fatales and the Cold War Vendetta -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781137356475 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Literature, Modern-20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN770-779 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813.087209