Pulp Fiction

This site is inspired by the hardboiled pulp fiction that made it onto the big screen as film noir.

Hamburg Noir

Peter Sarda’s hardboiled crime thriller series, Hamburg Noir, is recommended by Publishers Weekly for fans of Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Philip Kerr, Jakob Arjouni, and Simone Buchholz.

Pulp to Film

Peter Sarda’s reviews of hardboiled pulps that became classic noir films are a regular feature in Red Herrings, the monthly magazine of the Crime Writer’s Association.

Babylon
Berlin

Devil in a
Blue Dress

Neuromancer

After Dark,
My Sweet

To Have and
Have Not