Editing Crime fiction (section)

=== Hard-Boiled Age ===
Past the Golden Age, events such as the [[Great Depression]] and the transition between [[World war|World Wars]] ushered in a change in American crime fiction.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Henderson |first=Deborah |title=Cultural Studies Approaches to the Study of Crime in Literature |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2017 |isbn=978-0-19-026407-9}}</ref> There was a shift into [[Hardboiled|hard-boiled]] novels and their depictions of realism.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Horsley |first=Lee |title=Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=November 3, 2005 |isbn=0199253269 |location=Oxford, England |publication-date=November 3, 2005 |pages=68}}</ref> [[Dashiell Hammett]] and his work, including ''[[Red Harvest]]'' (1929), offered a more realistic social perspective to crime fiction, referencing events such as the [[Great Depression]]. [[James M. Cain]] contributed ''[[The Postman Always Rings Twice (novel)|The Postman Always Rings Twice]]'' (1934). This novel includes a married woman trying to murder her own husband with the assistance of a potential suitor. This theme extends to his other work, ''[[Double Indemnity (novel)|Double Indemnity]]'' (1934). Such elements of the book were a reference to the [[Ruth Snyder|Gray and Snyder]] trial. [[Raymond Chandler]] was a significant author who managed to see some works made into films. In 1944, he argued for the genre to be seen critically in his essay from ‘[[The Simple Art of Murder]].’<ref name=":02" />