Hard-Boiled Harrison: Pulp Chinatown, Occult Detection, and Howard’s Most Overlooked Character
The Arbo Files
Pulp detective fiction writers always used Chinatown as shorthand for exoticism and danger. Although physically inside of all-American cities like San Francisco or New York, the Chinatowns of Black Mask and other publications are depicted as a liminal space wherein the rules of the cop-and-crook game do not appl…