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Raymond Chandler, along with Dashiell Hammett before him and Ross Macdonald after, effected a startling change in the crime novel. As Chandler put it, he took the novel away from those who commit murder with “hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare, and tropical fish” and returned it to “the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse.”
This passage from Chandler’s essay explaining his technique in “The Simple Art of Murder” is dripping with sarcasm, contempt, and class analysis in its explanation of how the genre had been practiced by the upper-class detectives of the Sherlock Holmes/Agatha Christie school.
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There is infrequent use of strong language ( f k ) and milder terms ( ass , bastard , shit , God , damn ).
There are brief bloody images during a clip in which a soldier dies in the ocean.
There is a clip from the 1976 film THE OMEN in which a possessed woman with a noose around her neck steps off the side of a building. There are reaction shots from the crowd and brief sight of a falling body. There is also a grainy black and white film poster which shows the image of the woman hanging in front of a building. There are also undetailed suicide references to an actress trying to kill herself several times in front of her agent.
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More than wall art or furniture, a coffee table book presents an opportunity to express something of yourself in your decor. And, let’s face it, a coffee table book is more decor than it is actual literature. After all, how it’s meant to be used is right in the name placed on a coffee table to be casually admired and skimmed through.
A coffee table book is something for you and your guests to enjoy, but it’s also a great way to showcase your interests. Do you love a particular fashion designer or filmmaker? There’s probably a coffee table book for that. Interested in art and interiors? There are a