 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime - 1975 - 472 strani
...everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a mther weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by...man of honor in one thing, he is that in all things. He is a relatively poor man, or he would not be a detective at all. He is a common man or he would... | |
 | Earl F. Bargainnier - 1984 - 340 strani
...Chandler would further enscroll four years before Mason's death ("He is the hero; he is everything .... He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.") 5 , Mason, in his insistence on the hero as center, articulates here. Certainly Mason's own detective... | |
 | Ray Broadus Browne - 1984 - 208 strani
...man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man in any world. M In all detective fiction, the hero stands as the primary defender of taboo, but the... | |
 | Robert Allen Baker, Michael T. Nietzel - 1985 - 404 strani
...of honor — by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough...nor a satyr; I think he might seduce a duchess and 1 am quite sure he would not spoil a virgin; if he is a man of honor in one thing, he is that in all... | |
 | Peter Wolfe - 1985 - 262 strani
...common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor .... He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world .... If he is a man of honor in one thing, he is that in all things. There is no way to read sense... | |
 | Robert E. Skinner - 1989 - 204 strani
...would not. In his classic essay, "The Simple Art of Murder," Chandler wrote that his detective hero was "the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world." 2 In spite of the many imitators and disciples that these two writers spawned, there was still one... | |
 | Brian McFarlane, Geoff Mayer - 1992 - 284 strani
...man of honour, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.20 This passage from Raymond Chandler's 1946 essay, The Simple Art of Murder' established a crucial... | |
 | Ray Broadus Browne, Ronald J. Ambrosetti - 1993 - 280 strani
...of honor — by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough...man of honor in one thing he is that in all things. ...He is a relatively poor man, or he would not be a detective at all. He is a common man or he could... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 strani
...man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world. RA YMOND CHANDLER (18B8-1 959). US aulhor. The Simple Art of Murder (\4SQ; first published in Atlantic... | |
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He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world... 
