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Originally Posted by Ea
Chandler can do something special with language and writing that I don't feel has diminished at all since this was written.
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I agree.
One thing I especially admire is how Chandler gets into the point-of-view character's head and tells us only what that character would notice. There's no "author intrusion", no long summaries. It's tight writing.
And, it might contribute to the "who the heck did it?" factor others have mentioned. If Marlowe doesn't care who killed the chauffeur in The Big Sleep, the reader will never find out either.