Unpleasant experience, accommodating gloomy playwright

• "Hero and Leander" poet
• Tough guy who investigated more lawbreaking
• "The Big Sleep" detective
• Chandler's detective
• Tough cynical detective (one of the early detective heroes in American fiction) created by Raymond Chandler
• Raymond Chandler sleuth
• "Tamburlaine" was his first play

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Marlowe is a 1981 musical with a book by Leo Rost, lyrics by Rost and Jimmy Horowitz, and music by Horowitz. Despite a claim in the Playbill that "the story of this drama is essentially true and accurate," much of it is a fictionalized account of the life ...