books.google.es - Stavans's overall argument is that, in a national arena where moral decadence and political corruption prevail, the detective genre has been forced to embrace the hard-boiled model of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, rather than exploring its links to the more high-brow, sophisticated British tradition...http://books.google.es/books/about/Antiheroes.html?hl=es&id=Ro6a1EyaS2AC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAntiheroes