I've always slightly preferred Spade to Marlowe, probably just because I thought Hammett was cooler than Chandler. He was leftwing, his name shortened to Dash rather than Ray, and he didn't smoke a pipe or like cats.
From Mark Billingham
In the 1970s, there was a trend for all detectives on TV to have some quirk or gimmick, and this was often physical.
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