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There’s a lot of unnecessary time spent on describing rooms, furniture, and what people are wearing. But there’s also some really good writing sprinkled here and there. Marlowe’s too cool for school and Eddie Mars is a cool name. Cigarettes and whiskey, “smut books,” fast women, and one liners. Everything is so s m o o t h. Is this a movie? I’m imagining Humphrey Bogart playing Marlowe.

“I’m a private dick on a case.” interesting slang from 1939