There are some limits Marlowes just won’t cross
Christopher Tayler: Banville’s Marlowe, 3 April 2014
The Black-Eyed Blonde
by Benjamin Black.
Mantle, 320 pp., £16.99, February 2014,978 1 4472 3668 9 Show More
by Benjamin Black.
Mantle, 320 pp., £16.99, February 2014,
“... Van Dine’s famous aesthete-sleuth – polo player, expert in Chinese ceramics, former student of William James – whom Raymond Chandler regarded as ‘the most asinine character in detective fiction’, and on some level that’s probably the point. (‘I’m not Sherlock Holmes or Philo Vance,’ Marlowe says later on.) Even so, it’s surprising that ... ”