![]() ![]() ![]() In the hard-boiled genre, by contrast, the opposite was true: "he scene outranked the plot, in the sense that a good plot was one that made good scenes." In the former, the conclusion-when the sleuth explains whodunit and how-was everything what led up to it was mere "passagework," a careful alignment of plot elements to enable that final, big revelation. In the 1950 introduction to his collection of stories Trouble Is My Business, Raymond Chandler explained the difference between the classic murder mystery and the hard-boiled detective genre he helped invent. ![]()
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