The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He … - Raymond Chandler

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Raymond Chandler

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.

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