The Truman Gumshoes: The Postwar Detective Fiction of Mickey Spillane, Ross Macdonald, Wade Miller and Bart Spicer (Paperback)

Preface
Introduction: Four Post–World War II Approaches to Detective Fiction
1. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
2. Wade Miller's Max Thursday
3. Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer
4. Bart Spicer's Carney Wilde
5. The Solitary Detective Against the Organization Man: From Dupin to Lew Archer
Appendix I. Between Black Mask and the Truman Dicks: Stout, Davis, Halliday
Appendix II. The Doheny Case / The Cassidy Case
Appendix III. Brief Lives of the Truman Writers, 1915–1952
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index