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In the open-air Umi Jigoku (“Ocean Hell”) you can buy eggs hard-boiled in a basket.
Cagney riffed on this hard-boiled persona for about a decade, most harrowingly in Angels With Dirty Faces (1938), playing Rocky Sullivan, a killer who freaks out just as he's about to go to the electric chair.
He tried in The Day of the Locust (1939), with its more or less realistic story of Hollywood down and outs, but mostly he succeeded in placing a veneer of hard-boiled literary conventions over his manias about women and sex, which makes him seem just as crazy as in his other books, but less aware of it, therefore less entertaining.
The city’s setting in a magnificent bay embraced by soaring green mountains is one of those blessings that can turn any hard-boiled atheist into a believer.
To his credit, Stross does grasp what's right at Microsoft: the hard-boiled meritocracy that makes rich those who contribute to it; Bill Gates' prediction that consumers, not just large businesses, would jump at the chance to own computers; and his--and his company's--driving desire to outsmart and outfox the competition.