The Detective Part 1

I've been reading a lot of detective fiction lately: Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Aside from the fact that they're all about mysteries and detecting the solution to aforementioned mysteries, they're also some of the  more depressing books I've read. These writers have crafted worlds populated with brainless thugs, shallow women and men who are isolated from the rest of the world just because they're half-way decent.

There is horror here, different from what I write, ...