Bill wrote:
"Against her we must hold the way she breaks down and cries
at the end of the book, as she does after all her most
dangerous escapades. She doesn't have the hard inner heart
that asks for nothing from nobody."
Does Marlowe have that "hard inner heart," or any number of
other male PIs whose hardboiledness we never question? Tears
may not fall from their manly eyes, but enough of them have
sorrows they seek to drown at the end of a hard case.
Mark
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