>judging by the work of many of the contributers to
Raymond Chandler's Philip
>Marlowe, I'd say any number of them could have done a
much better job than
>Parker. it simply did not feel as if he was inside
the head of the character.
Or not. As great as some of those stories are, it's a lot
easier to do a short story, and stick to the tried and true,
than trying to complete a novel that broke new ground and
took Marlowe in a completely different direction.
My guess is that even if Chandler had lived to complete
POODLE SPRINGS himself, plenty of you would have been
disappointed with it.
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