Wandering up and down the Pacific Coast in an automobile I began to read pulp magazines, because they were cheap enough to throw away and because I never had at any time any taste for the kind of thing which is known as women's magazines. In 1950, Chandler described in a letter to his English publisher, Hamish Hamilton, why he began reading pulp magazines and later wrote for them: Chandler's first professional work, 'Blackmailers Don't Shoot', was published in Black Mask magazine in 1933 his first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939, featuring his famous Philip Marlowe detective character speaking in the first person. ĭue to his straitened financial circumstances during the Great Depression, Chandler turned to his latent writing talent to earn a living, teaching himself to write pulp fiction by studying the Perry Mason story formula of Erle Stanley Gardner. For friendship's sake, Marlowe will not give up. Marlowe investigates Terry's case on his own, despite being warned off by powerful adversaries: the police, jealous of being embarrassed a bullying mobster, who was a war buddy of Terry and Terry's immensely rich and influential father-in-law, who owns many newspapers and doesn't want to see his family in the headlines. The police brutally beat Marlowe up while he's in handcuffs, but Marlowe will not betray his friend.

When Terry's wife is murdered by someone else, Marlowe drives Terry to Mexico, to elude the police. Terry has a wealthy, unfaithful wife, whom he's divorced and re-married. Marlowe befriends Terry Lennox, a war veteran with the facial scars to prove it. Fiction, mystery, Philip Marlowe (Fictional character), film/TV adaptation

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