Murder Mysteries

This novel is from the hard-boiled school, a style of mystery novel which takes a dark view of human nature, which expresses themes in terms of violence, and with what is generally a cynical point of view. The narrator is often the detective himself, as is the case in this novel, and the consciousness of marlowe is the filter through which every scene is depicted. The style was pioneered in Dashiell hammett's The Maltese Falcon, but that novel is told in the third person. The two most interesting things about the novel are the consciousness of Marlowe, a cynical man who tries to have ideals in a world where ideals are not favored, and the setting, for Chandler makes Los Angeles in the late 1940s a major character in the novel. Because the story is in the first person, we see everything from marlowe's point of view and with his running commentary on what it means to him, so the book remains

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cheme, and Warshawski has to investigate. Actually, as with so many private detectives in this sort of fiction, she is originally hired by the victim's father, banker John Thayer, to find a missing girl, Anita Hill, a university student and his sone's girl friend, and stumbles into the other plot in the course of that investigation. As she does, she delves into the background of a Chicago union considered especially dangerous and corrupt. Warshawski is an interesting character and has a number of interesting friends who help her in her work, and Paretsky makes the sex-role switch believable. DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS Walter Mosley's novel is reminiscent of Raymond Chandler and The Big Sleep in that this is a hard-boiled detective novels et in Los Angeles and told through the central consciousness of the main character, Easy Rawlins. Rawlins, however, is a black man in the Los Angeles of the late 1940s, a period not only of more overt racism than exists today but of police corruption, making the role of a black private detective especially difficult. In this story, Rawlins becomes a detective out of necessity after he loses his job and has to find something else to do, and he feels his way in this new role, learning as he goes
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Approximate Word count = 1638
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page)

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