1. I've been reading some Raymond Chandler lately & it clarified something that is maybe obvious to everyone else but had never occurred to me: that pervasive police corruption was a necessary precondition for creation of hard-boiled detective novel as a genre.
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you're in for a treat
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Chandler basically said he learned to write pulp from Gardner (and says he was the best plotter of the pulp guys, which may well be true). His cops are dumb but he trains his ire on the DA. It's not strictly corruption or stupidity but an indifference to the truth.
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they're incredibly readable books and Gardner was a fascinating figure who did a sort of proto-innocence project
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