There are four vital significant characteristics of the hard-boiled tradition in stories. One is the detective’s portrayal of the world as a bit corrupt, immoral twilight zone in which good and evil are unclear. A second is in its use of the narrator’s spicy dialogue, modern slang often from the ghetto, mixed with the wise-crack. Third, the emphasizing upon the detective as a lone avenger. Finally, there’s an emphasis on macho action and explicit violence, with no room for a woman. All four characteristics are in my view essential to the genre, but can a woman be just as hard core? Hard-boiled is the expression most often used to refer to Raymond Chandler 's 1930’s private eye, Philip Marlowe in “Farewell, My Lovely.” So as time passes by, hard-boiled detective stories shift and one is given the …show more content…
Warshawski has attributes as a typical detective types such as being a loner, having a strong moral code and powerful reasoning, among other things. Throughout the story she keeps in shape by jogging with her downstairs neighbor dog, Peppy. Every so often she indulges with a bottle of whiskey. Meanwhile, Warshawski isn 't crazy about going back to her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she 's never has been the one who breaks a promise. Going back to her old neighborhood for a school reunion, in the process she finds herself agreeing to search for a childhood friend 's Caroline Djiak missing father. A man her friend never knew and whom her friend 's dying mother Louisa Djiak, will not speak. After that what should have been a routine missing-persons case quickly turns up a homicide as another childhood friend Nacy Cleghorn turns up dead. Warshawski had to battle corrupt politicians and businessmen, who did all they can to wreck her investigation. Throughout the story, Warshawski had a lot of run-ins with Lieutenant Bobby Mallory. In these run-ins were both by the books and friend. Mallory was friends with her father when he was also on the force, before he