The Many Faces of Philip Marlowe

He originally went by different monikers, in different pulp-era short stories: Mallory, John Dalmas, Carmady, Ted Malvern. Yet by the time he narrated Raymond Chandler’s debut novel, The Big Sleep (1939), he’d become private eye Philip Marlowe. Cool. Smart. At times compassionate and funny. A former investigator with the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office (fired … Continue reading The Many Faces of Philip Marlowe