The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and …

Raymond Chandler
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The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective. ✨ Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959, p.160, Grove Press
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