This is the Code of the Private Eye as defined by Raymond Chandler in his 1944 essay 'The Simple Act of Murder.' Such a man was Philip Marlowe, private eye, an educated, heroic, streetwise, rugged individualist and the hero of Chandler's first novel, The Big Sleep. This work established Chandler as the master of the 'hard-boiled' detective novel, and his articulate and literary style of writing won him a large audience, which ranged from the man in the street to the most sophisticated intellectual.
Marlowe subsequently appeared in a series of extremely popular novels, among them The Lady in the Lake, The Long Goodbye, and Farewell, My Lovely." ~ Elizabeth Diefendorf, editor, The New York Public Library's Books of the Century, p. 112.文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/2460.html
Selected as one of Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels, with the following review: "'I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be.' This sentence, from the first paragraph of The Big Sleep, marks the last time you can be fully confident that you know what's going on.文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/2460.html
一个古怪的父亲，一对儿古怪的姐妹。菲利普·马洛第一次登场，面对的就是这样一个家庭。老迈而富有的将军请马洛去寻找他的女婿，他的两个女儿却一直阻止马洛采取进一步行动，花痴一样的妹妹甚至天天爬到马洛的床上。诱惑力十足的姐姐则送上双唇。 只认识钱的混混儿、最有情意的流氓、租售淫秽书籍的同性恋……文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/2460.html
马洛本来只是找一个不见的人，结果却见了这么多人。他要一个一个和他们打交道，用他利如刀锋的语言和拳头、手枪。 这是雷蒙德·钱德勒第一部长篇小说，他把迈克尔·凯恩开创的黑色小说和达谢尔·哈米特开创的硬汉小说结合在了一起，从此将自己的名字铸在侦探小说的门楣上，并铺下了通往今日的苏·格拉夫顿、以及CSI等犯罪电视之路的第一块砖。文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/2460.html
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