Kettle Dance

<p><em>The detective in this kind of story must be such a man. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be to use a rather weathered phrase a man of honor-by instinct by inevitability without thought of it and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world. I do not care much about his private life; he is neither a eunuch nor a satyr; I think he might seduce a duchess and I am quite sure he would not spoil a virgin; if he is a man of honor in one thing he is that in all things.</em></p><p>-Raymond Chandler</p><p> <em>The Simple Art of Murder</em> 1950</p>