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Clear and direct narration with lots of carpets contrasting the moral superiority of Philip Marlowe
Five stars, one of my all time favourite crime novels.
A book about the seedy side of life - murder, blackmail, crooked cops, drug addicts, double-crossers and pornographers. A notoriously complicated plot that not even the author could fully explain, for example who killed the chauffeur? The protagonist Philip Marlowe is one of the most famous private detectives in crime fiction.
So many great descriptions in this novel, for example -
"The boy stood glaring at him with sharp black eyes in a face ...more
A book about the seedy side of life - murder, blackmail, crooked cops, drug addicts, double-crossers and pornographers. A notoriously complicated plot that not even the author could fully explain, for example who killed the chauffeur? The protagonist Philip Marlowe is one of the most famous private detectives in crime fiction.
So many great descriptions in this novel, for example -
"The boy stood glaring at him with sharp black eyes in a face ...more
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