I've lurked for a while with pleasure, but this is the first
time I've posted. Several have mentioned that the PI needs to
catch up with the times, specifically technologically, but
I'd say the PI novel (certainly with Chandler, Hammett, etc.,
if less so in the procedural) has always been about voice,
and what is needed is not references to Paypal, but an
entertaining voice that clearly exists in the world in which
Paypal also exists. Once that voice is found, the details
tend to take care of themselves. Nail down a modern voice as
vivid and as funny as Marlowe's was, and I could listen to
him talk about his computer monitor all day long.
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