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- ↑ Rzepka, Charles J. and Lee Horsley. A Companion to Crime Fiction. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, p. 407.
- ↑ Widdicombe, Toby. A Reader's Guide to Raymond Chandler. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001, p. 52.
