Who Is a Hardboiled Detective?

Notable hardboiled detectives include Philip Marlowe, Mike Hammer, Sam Spade, Lew Archer, Slam Bradley, and The Continental Op.

Is Sherlock Holmes a hard-boiled detective?

The hard-boiled detective seemed to emerge during the late 1930's and 1940's with stories like "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Big Sleep" by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler respectively. ... The evidence showing that Sherlock Holmes acted like one of the hard-boiled detectives is quite great.

Where does hard-boiled detective come from?

BEGINNING: The hard-boiled detective was created in the pages of “Black Mask” magazine in the early 1920s by Carroll John Daly, a largely forgotten hack. He was immediately followed by Hammett, who brought real talent to the genre and gave it literary credentials.