Farewell, My Lovely (Phillip Marlowe)

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He swung the fist very hard and short with a sudden outward jerk of the elbow and hit the big man on the side of the jaw. If you can get past the casual racism that litters the early chapters, you’ll find one of the classics of noir fiction. A great quote about Hemingway in the novel , about always repeating himself so much that you tend to believe eventually!

The tale is fun and familiar, partly because Chandler paved the road for the best of what we know of Noir, but moreover, it's just GOOD.

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Second, Chandler has a wonderful facility for painting descriptions so that you feel like you’re walking right beside Marlowe and he does it in such sparse, efficient style.His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. Some good parts of the book were preserved, but mostly the book had it's arms and legs amputated, and it's heart and brain scrambled. In a routine cheap case , (when he can collect his fee) of trying to find a runaway, a Greek husband, Marlowe on Central Avenue in Los Angeles 1940 gazes at the titanic and dangerous Moose Malloy, on an incessant mission, this former jailbird is six and a half feet tall, 260 lbs.