The blurb on Amazon says: "Leonard Cassuto's cultural history links the testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime stories to the sensitive women of the nineteenth-century sentimental novel. From classics like The Big Sleep and The Talented Mr. Ripley to neglected paperback gems, Cassuto chronicles the dialogue--centered on the power of sympathy--between these popular genres and the sweeping social changes of the twentieth century, ending with a surprising connection between today's serial killers and the domestic fictions of long ago."
https://https://smile.amazon.com/Hard-Boiled-Sentimentality-History-American-Stories/dp/0231126905/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2PEAOS22LY3GY&keywords=Leonard+Cassuto&qid=1641751984&s=books&sprefix=leonard+cassuto%2Cstripbooks%2C114&sr=1-3
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