Category: hardboiled detective

  • The Key to Marlowe’s Conundrum is In a Can of Cat Food

    The Key to Marlowe’s Conundrum is In a Can of Cat Food

    Elliot Gould, “The Long Goodbye” (1973) One of my favorite neo-noirs is “The Long Goodbye” (1973), Robert Altman’s adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel of the same title, published 20 years earlier. Altman’s most drastic alteration of Chandler’s opus is placing the story in the 1970s instead of eight years after the end of World…