Hard-Boiled Detective QOTD
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    Major Spoilers Question of the Day: Hard-Boiled Detective Edition

    Matthew PetersonBy 3 Comments1 Min Read

    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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    3. Dan on

      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

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