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Talking About Detective FictionБЂњStands the church clock at ten to three?БЂ«And is there arsenic still for tea? It was a tough case. Plenty of witnesses, but no one was talking. 4. Soft-centred and Hard-boiled It was about eleven oБЂ™clock in the morning, mid-October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothillsБЂ¦ I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didnБЂ™t care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars. Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep WHILE THE well-born and impeccably correct detectives of the Golden Age were courteously interviewing their suspects in the drawing rooms of country houses, the studies of rural clergymen and the rooms of Oxford academics, across the Atlantic crime writers were finding their material and inspiration in a very different society and writing about it in prose that was colloquial, vivid and memorable. Although this book is primarily about British detective novelists, the commonly described hard-boiled school of American fiction, rooted in a different continent and in a different literary tradition, has made such an important contribution to crime writing that to ignore its achievements would be seriously misleading ...» | Код для вставки книги в блог HTML
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