Playback | Characters
In his famous essay, "The Simple Art of Murder," Raymond Chandler insisted that in a crime narrative the hero "is everything." In his private notebooks, published since as "Twelve Notes on the Mystery Story," he was equally resolute: "The hero of a mystery story is the detective. Everything hangs on his personality. If he hasn't one, you have very little." In Philip Marlowe, Chandler created one of modern literatures most famous and enduring characters, a hero so vivid and real that even his off-stage life became the subject of interest. Chandler, obliging, fleshed it out when asked to...
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