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This examination of the role of alcohol in hard-boiled detective fiction begins with the genre's birth, in an era influenced and affected by Prohibition, and follows the genre's development and its relation to our changing understanding of and attitudes towards alcohol and alcoholism.

Scottish novelist Jane Duncan's semiautobiographical My Friends series was dismissed by postwar critics as lightweight, at a time when a coterie of "angry young men" monopolized the attention of the British publishing establishment. Yet deeper themes are at play in the 19 novels. Modern readers will recognize feminist motifs, a wide-ranging examination of women's education and work in the 20th century, a woman's view of the rising societal ten...