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A comment on Father Knox’s decalogue: the ten rules of Golden Age detective fiction. Parent comment

Re:Father Knox’s decalogue: the ten rules of Golden Age dete... by pyuser583 on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @11:03PM (#29412440)
He’s obviously never seen “Chan Is Missing,” one of the greatest noir movies ever: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Is_Missing.
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Re:Father Knox’s decalogue: the ten rules of Golden Age dete... by labster on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @11:51PM (#29412677)
If you read OP, it’s mentioned in detail that the decalogue never applied to hardboiled/noir American stories.
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Re:Father Knox’s decalogue: the ten rules of Golden Age dete... by nottorp on Thursday December 02, 2021 @09:17AM (#29416333)
Also I think that movie came 50+ years after peak hardboiled detective... 1983.
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