This paper attemps to invstigate properties of hard-boiled detective novel and to analyze the text structures of the genre. This paper is presented in three parts. The first part deals with properties of hard-boiled detective novel genre. They are intentionality, intertextuality, schemas. The second part shows the character roles of hard-boiled. Usually, detective is narrator because he/she motivates the actions and show us the real world. In the third part, the types of the sub-texts of hard-boiled novel are analyzed. Hard-boiled novels have somewhat different structure that puzzle mysteries do not have. Some peripheral texts that never play important roles in the main plot are inserted. The main narrative structure is arranged by linear structure and sub-texts can be branched out from the main text.
