I recall reading "mean streets" in Dorothy L. Sayers's "Have
His Carcase"
(1932). She also uses "hard-boiled" in that novel. So much
for cosies. Chesterton sounds plausible, too: Flambeau has
hard-boiled tendencies.
Chris
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