The coin was the subject of nefarious goings on in Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe mystery The High Window.
Pynchon's main character, private investigator Larry "Doc" Sportello, praises Staccato as "the shamus of shamuses," ranking him with past greats Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade.
Chandler, a twice Oscar nominated screenwriter who did not author the screenplay for this or any other screen adaptations of his own novels, disdained Montgomery's ambition to create a cinematic version of the first-person narrative style of his Philip Marlowe novels.
The story was made into an episode of the HBO series Philip Marlowe, Private Eye.
In Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, Philip Marlowe relates "I unlocked my desk drawer and got out my office bottle and two pony glasses."
"The Poodle Springs Story", a Philip Marlowe novel Chandler left unfinished at his death in 1959.
Some of the more well-known literary references include the Philip Marlowe story "Red Wind" by Raymond Chandler, and Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
At once cynical and noble, Geralt has been compared to Raymond Chandler's signature character Philip Marlowe.
In the prose context of most film, stichomythia has been defined as a "witty exchange of one-liners" and associated with the film noir characters Jeff Bailey in Out of the Past, Sam Spade, and Philip Marlowe.
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe was a radio series featuring Raymond Chandler's private eye, Philip Marlowe.
Argento borrowed heavily from crime thriller literature (some plot elements derive from works of Fredric Brown; Musante's character is named after an early incarnation of Raymond Chandler's iconic character Philip Marlowe) and from previous Italian thrillers (the killer's attire was lifted from Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace, of which he closely imitated the gory murder sequences) but he managed to make the end result fresh and provocative instead of derivative.
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