![]() ![]() Jimmy Hopkins, common teenager amongst common teenagers, believes in reciprocity, be it financial, ethical, or simply brutal. ![]() ![]() Raymond Chandler, the creator of detective Phillip Marlowe, may have been describing his sense of who the hardboiled detective is in his essay, “Simple Art of Murder”, but he may as well have been describing another hero in the two-fisted pulp tradition. “I only give people what they have coming to them.” Raymond Chandler, “Simple Art of Murder” He will take no man’s money dishonestly and no man’s insolence without a due and dispassionate revenge.” He has a sense of character, or he would not know his job. He is a common man or he could not go among common people. ![]() “He is a relatively poor man, or he would not be a detective at all. He must be, to use a weathered phrase, a man of honor by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. “He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. ![]()
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