Hard boiled detective with $5000

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Hard boiled detective with $5000

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1alco261
tammikuu 13, 2012, 9:52 am

I'm trying to find a murder mystery which I think was of the hard boiled detective genre. The only line I can remember went something like this "I was feeling very good that morning. I had portrait of Madison in my wallet."

Madison is on the $5000 bill and since $5000 bills were withdrawn from U.S. circulation in 1969 the book would have to have been written before then. I'm reasonably sure that I read the book either in the late 1960's or the early '70's.

2Browzee
Muokkaaja: tammikuu 13, 2012, 12:38 pm

It's The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler, for certain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Goodbye_(novel)

I've got 50p and a couple of chocolate limes in my pocket, not quite as cool as Marlowe, sigh.

3alco261
tammikuu 13, 2012, 2:42 pm

Thank you very much!

4lquilter
helmikuu 22, 2012, 8:13 pm

touchstone fairy: The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler.