Sam Delacroix writes the city after midnight — tarnished men, slow doom, and an honest code that costs everything. Terse and fatalistic, in love with the wrong people; the detective always arrives too late, and goes anyway.
Terse, cynical, neon-and-rain first person. Wisecracks over a bleeding heart; the city is corrupt and so is everyone in it. Metaphors like switchblades, morality in the gutter.
Preoccupations
corruption · the femme fatale · the honest man in a crooked town · the case that costs everything
In conversation with
Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Ellroy
A line
"She walked into my office like trouble that had finally found its address."
Tellwyn
