Here at Major Spoilers, we’re more than just capes and tights (though we love those, too). When it comes to the literary genres, there’s also a lot of M.S. love for hard-boiled detective fiction, like your Philips Marlowe, your Sams Spade and your Slams Bradley. As a kid, I remember enjoying the Continental Op (though, as an adult, I’ve become a fan of Operator No. 5, partly because my job description is literally “Operator”) and I used to watch Stacy Keach as Mike Hammer in high school. There are a lot of cool detectives out there, from Ms. Tree to Lew Archer to Clyde Umney, leading us to today’s film noir query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) lives an absurd life, and thus needs the absurdist detecting skills of Nick Danger, Third Eye, asking: What hard-boiled detective would you choose to get you out of a jam?
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Glen Cook’s Garrett. If he can navigate TunFaire and its issues, he can solve the problems in my life.
Trixie Dixon and her partner Jack Justice.
If Ms. Fisher from Ms. Fisher’s Murder Mysteries counts as “hard boiled,” i pick Ms. Fisher.
I could continue with another egg pun, but that’d be gauche