The Colonel, had he produced stock-subscription blanks and a fountain pen, could have signed me up right there for ten units in the American Hog Syndicate or a hundred shares of the Stray Dog Manhattan Mining Companyboth of them promotions that have engaged portions of his past, although, of course, I had not at that time heard of them
knowledge, (See Thunder and Electricity)
Marlowe would serve as the protagonist of ten of Chandler's novels and short stories, and would be played on the big screen by such actors as Humphrey Bogart, Elliot Gould, Powers Boothe, James Caan, Michael Gambon, James Garner, and, in the case of the 1978 adaptation of "The Big Sleep," by Robert Mitchum
was formed by Magn Argelles, a Spaniard who had learned the business in Cuba and Marcelino A