The Body Farm | Literary Precedents
This novel places the hard-boiled ethos, an outlook bred in cities, into a rural area. Of the Scarpetta novels, this one bears the closest connections with Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled masterpiece The Big Sleep (1939). Chandler is justly renowned for his colorful and evocative metaphors and images, and for the weary tone of the narration. In both of these stylistic aspects, The Big Sleep and The Body Farm offer rich comparisons for reading and discussion.
Other contemporary mystery writers have used settings very similar to Black Mountain, rural communities...
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