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Originally Posted by skb
I find the casual sexism and racism (especially the racism) difficult to cope with in some books. Is it one of DLS's or Christie's that has the horrible scandal about a clergyman who is...gasp...black? I can remember reading that when I was a teenager and not being able to understand what the issue was (yes, I was so very, very innocent).
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Yeah. I love Raymond Chandler, but I do remember in Farewell, My Lovely (I think?) one of the henchmen was a big, hulking (native American) Indian. And for no reason other than that, Marlowe kept mentioning that he smelled bad.