The Marlowe Variations
By Jake Hinkson
December 8, 2011When you say the words “private eye” everyone thinks of Philip Marlowe. Granted, they may not know his name—while the hero of Raymond Chandler’s novels and short stories was an enormous popular success, he never became a phenomenon of Mike Hammer or Lisabeth Salander proportions—but he is the prototype of the hardboiled hero. The image…