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EPISODE · Apr 7, 2020 · 6 MIN

El Pueblo y el Hombre

from The American Story

The detective hero, and the detective novel, are not an American invention. But a few authors like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler made them as American as apple pie. The attitude of Chandler's hard-edged, soft-hearted, wise-cracking hero and the atmosphere of Chandler's Los Angeles were as unmistakably American as Humphrey Bogart, who played Marlowe in the 1946 film version of Chandler's The Big Sleep.

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The detective hero, and the detective novel, are not an American invention. But a few authors like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler made them as American as apple pie. The attitude of Chandler's hard-edged, soft-hearted, wise-cracking hero and...

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