Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe is the quintessential hard-boiled detective. Although Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op and Sam Spade preceded him, Marlowe’s first appearance in „The Big Sleep“ (1939) set the definitive standards for what his kind was and is supposed to be like: tough, incorruptible, stoically brave, sometimes to the point of self-destruction, deeply disillusioned, yet…