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Collins was hanged on March 26, , and Randolph was hanged on May 8, , in Union. Pinkertons were also hired for transporting money and other high-quality merchandise between cities and towns, which made them vulnerable to outlaws. Pinkerton agents were usually well paid and well armed. Louis , Missouri , a competitor to the Pinkerton agency.

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The Thiel company operated in the U. Due to its conflicts with labor unions , the word Pinkerton continues to be associated by labor organizers and union members with strikebreaking. With less of the labor and criminal investigation work on which Pinkertons thrived for decades, the company became increasingly involved in protection services, and in the s, even the word "detective" disappeared from the agency's letterhead. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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The Big Sleep , like most of Chandler's novels, was written by what he called "cannibalizing" his short stories. In both stories there is a powerful father who is distressed by his wayward daughter. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. The white made the ivory look dirty and the ivory made the white look bled out. The Battle for Homestead,

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In both stories there is a powerful father who is distressed by his wayward daughter. Chandler merged the two fathers into a new character and did the same for the two daughters, resulting in General Sternwood and his wild daughter Carmen. Chandler also borrowed small parts of two other stories, "Finger Man" and "Mandarin's Jade".

As might be expected, all this cannibalising—especially in a time when cutting and pasting was done by cutting and pasting paper—sometimes produced a plot with a few loose ends. The famously unanswered question in The Big Sleep is who killed the chauffeur.

When Howard Hawks filmed the novel , his writing team was perplexed by that question, in response to which Chandler replied that he had no idea. To Chandler, plot was less important than atmosphere and characterisation.

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An ending that answered every question while neatly tying every plot thread mattered less to Chandler than interesting characters with believable behaviour. When Chandler merged his stories into a novel, he spent more effort on expanding descriptions of people, places, and Marlowe's thinking than getting every detail of the plot perfectly consistent.

In "The Curtain", the description of Mrs. O'Mara's room is just enough to establish the setting: Ivory drapes of immense height lay tumbled casually on the white carpet inside the many windows. The windows stared towards the dark foot-hills, and the air beyond the glass was dark too. It hadn't started to rain yet, there was a feeling of pressure in the atmosphere. O'Mara in the original story is covering up the murder of her husband by her sister and that the coming rainstorm will bring more deaths: There were full-length mirrors and crystal doodads all over the place.

The ivory furniture had chromium on it, and the enormous ivory drapes lay tumbled on the white carpet a yard from the windows. The white made the ivory look dirty and the ivory made the white look bled out. The windows stared towards the darkening foothills. It was going to rain soon. There was pressure in the air already. But the criminality of erotica dealers did not extend beyond bookselling into organized racketeering; Al Capone and Meyer Lansky were not role models.

A figure like A. Geiger, the dirty-books racketeer in Raymond Chandler's Big Sleep who supplements his business activities as owner of a pornographic lending library in Hollywood by arranging sex orgies and blackmailing rich customers, is a fascinating but lurid exaggeration. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see The Big Sleep disambiguation. Retrieved 25 May The Life of Raymond Chandler. The Raymond Chandler Papers. Atlantic Monthly Press p.

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