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Raymond Chandler
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The Big Sleep
1939
It smelled of ether and something else, possibly laudanum. I had never tried the mixture but it seemed to go pretty well with the Geiger mΓ©nage.
The Lady in the Lake
1944
'It's because he's a no-good son of a bitch who thinks it is smart to lay his friends' wives and brag about it.'
The Long Goodbye
1953
Because the headache will always be there, a weapon that never wears out and is as deadly as the bravoβs rapier or Lucrezia's poison vial.
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The Big Sleep
The Lady in the Lake
The Long Goodbye