Sonny,
"but that's no fun. and certainly not hard-boiled. in fact it's absolutely cozy."
While being hard-boiled (or noir for that matter) characters not necessarily moral, neither are they inherently immoral.
The determining factor in hard-boiledness is certainly not morality or else a character like Chandler's Marlowe, forever agonizing over doing the right thing, or Hammett's Spade, resisting an almost overwhelming sexual temptation in order to turn in the killer of a partner he didn't even like, would never qualify as hard-boiled, let alone characters who wear the compasson on their sleeve like Macdonald's Archer, Thomas B. Dewey's Mac, or Pronzini's "Bill."
Of course this has nothing to do with keeping the Philly Library open.
JIM DOHERTY
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