Dash and Ray: Slang’s Palookas
By Dr. Lewis Preschel
June 26, 2011Why were Chandler and Hammett not just great mystery writers, but great authors and literary stylists? It wasn’t that they initiated the hardboiled style of detective novels. It was because they invented language and prose to go with the detectives. Some of the words are still with us today and some have taken a deep…