With Hammett, Chandler, another great founder of hard-boiled. Trouble is my business reads well in English, the slang of 50 years is THE appointment ("jerk", "slug", "copper", ...) and enjoys it. Marlowe is undoubtedly the ancestor of Milo Milodragovitch, Dimitri Karras and Fritz Brown. He drinks. Crumley, Ellroy and Pelecanos will add drugs and deliver more substance by working more pangs and anguish of their characters. In Trouble is my business, the atmosphere is such that one can imagine: guns, crooks, cops, detective bureau we get to see well, women often play a double game. The somewhat regret is "shipped" but the first three news. It is hard to fully follow the path but easy wear to enjoy the atmosphere that surrounds them. One good thing however to the excellent "Red Wind," the latest news of the book and in my opinion the best in its construction. Anyway, Marlowe is the archetype of the IP that then resurface in many forms.
