By: Raymond Chandler
By: Raymond Chandler
this is the code of the private eye as defined by raymond chandler in his 1944 essay 'the simple act of murder.' such a man was philip marlowe, private eye, an educated, heroic, streetwise, rugged individualist and the hero of chandler's first novel, the big sleep. this work established chandler as the master of the 'hard-boiled' detective novel, and his articulate and literary style of writing...
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