![]() ![]() Mosley's South Central Los Angeles is even more violent than the underbelly of the city created by Chandler. Still, both Marlowe and Rawlins are from the wrong side of the tracks and are equally out of place when ushered into a Beverly Hills mansion by a thin-lipped butler. In short, he is hardly a "saint with a gun," to borrow D.H. ![]() Neither tarnished nor mean? Easy has killed before, and after enduring one racial insult too many, he can inflict pain in plentiful doses. More real than Marlowe, Easy Rawlins knows fear when a homicidal cop beats him. Still, Easy Rawlins does not clearly fit into the description of the detective hero immortalized in Chandler's essay, "The Simple Art of Murder": "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid." The cops were thugs too paid by the owners of property to keep the other thugs down." Criminals were just a bunch of thugs living off what honest people and rich people made. they're both the same and interchangeable. "The law is just the other side of the coin from crime. ![]() Rawlins shares with Chandler's Philip Marlowe a distrust of authority, usually personified by the police. ![]()
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