Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go

Thematically, Chandler's work is in the mainstream of American literature that moved westward, carrying the simple problems of the extrovert who, knowing right from wrong, had only to exert a courageous individualism in order to end up a hardened but virtuous hero.

Originally published in 1963.

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