I have decided that, when it comes to hard-boiled detectives, I prefer Dashiell Hammett to Raymond Chandler. Why? Because Chandler gets his first impressions of characters from their clothes. That might have been for the non-digitally connected world that Chandler was writing in and about, but for me? It irritates me.

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