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- Title
Tails, Gunfights, and Murder: The Role of the Automobile in the Noir Fiction of James M. Cain and Raymond Chandler.
- Authors
Smoak, Shelby
- Abstract
The author discusses the dark and illicit uses of the automobile in lames M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) and Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep (1939), concluding that Cain and Chandler transform cars from benign machines of transportation to tools with darker and more violent ends.
- Subjects
AUTOMOBILES; CAIN, James M.; POSTMAN Always Rings Twice, The (Book : Cain); CHANDLER, Raymond, 1888-1959; BIG Sleep, The (Book : Chandler)
- Publication
Clues: A Journal of Detection (McFarland & Company), 2011, Vol 29, Issue 2, p40
- ISSN
0742-4248
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3172/CLU.29.2.40