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"Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it."
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"My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother's a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career."
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