Sample of authors
Goodis, David
The American author David Goodis is ranked as one of the greatest names in ‘noir’ literature, and some of his novels have been labelled classics. This applies not least to his second novel, Dark Passage (1946), which was successfully filmed in 1947 with Laureen Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in the starring roles. Goodis started his literary career by writing for pulp magazines and paperback pub...
Literary figures
Sharon McCone
Gender: Female
She grew up in an area with social problems in the city of San Diego, but after some difficult teenage years she took a hold of her life, studied at university, became engaged in politics and eventually became a detective in a cooperative of lawyers. Author Marcia Muller describes Sharon McCone as dark and attractive, but also tough and stubborn – and she is regarded as the first hard-boiled f...