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Review title: CHANDLER WARMS UP
Product review: I have reviewed Raymond Chandler's seven Phillip Marlowe detective classics elsewhere in this space so there is no need to go into detail about his place in the detective genre pantheon. What is interesting in this series of short works is that Chandler is working out the 'formula' for what he expects out of his detectives. Those qualities get worked out in Marlowe and thus take their place as very good literary work indeed. Even here Chandler exhibits the sparse but functional dialogue that holds the Marlowe series together. If you have never read Chandler in novel or short story form here is your chance. There will be no place for Agatha Christie-type parlor detectives for you after that. For sure.If nothing else get this book for his essay that gives this work its title. This is his take at the time (early 1950's) on the genre's place in the literary pantheon. Now his long ago off-hand remarks are the wisdom of the academy. Enough said.
