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Talking About Detective FictionThe hard-boiled detectives are not introspective; it is through action and dialogue that their story is told. Chandler БЂ™s hero, Philip Marlowe, accepts that he is earning a precarious and dangerous living in a world which is lawless, tawdry and corrupt but, unlike Spade, he has a social conscience, personal integrity and a moral code beyond unquestioning loyalty to his job and colleagues. He is discriminating about the kind of work he will accept, never takes tainted money or betrays a friend, and is totally loyal even to undeserving clients. More personally vulnerable than Spade, he is a more reluctant private eye, troubled and repelled by the corrupt and heartless world in which he earns his living and uncomfortably sensitive to the suffering of its victims. In the words of a character in The Long Goodbye, БЂњThere ainБЂ™t no clean way to make a hundred million bucksБЂ¦ Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under themБЂ¦ Decent people lost their jobsБЂ¦ Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. ItБЂ™s the system.БЂ«Marlowe tells his story in the first person in prose that is terse but richly descriptive and larded with wisecracks ...» |
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