This collection is dedicated to Joseph Shaw ...in memory of the time when we were trying to get murder away from the upper classes, the week-end house party ad the vicar's rose garden, and back to the people who are really good at it." That sums up the hardboiled attitude While I enjoy many of the classic British mysteries of the type he rejects, I also enjoy the well-done hard-boiled, which ironically have now become just as iconic as the rival school, ( )