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- Name
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- Author
- Raymond Chandler
- Year
- 1953
- Genre
- Noir detective novel
- Primary setting
- Los Angeles, mid-20th century
- Best read in
- Too-late night, low light, something vaguely smoky
- Mood level
- World-weary, poetic, slightly drunk
- Page count
- ≈380
- My take
- Marlowe spends most of the book tired, loyal, and disappointed, which is basically adulthood with better metaphors.
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