# @deadinkbooks on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BX0UzGWBzZ_
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- **Posted:** 2017-08-15T14:20:33.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dead Ink Books (@deadinkbooks) — https://gondola.cc/deadinkbooks

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"I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room." - Philip Marlowe

Literary Mixology No. 3 features the #cocktail of choice for both private detective Philip Marlowe and his creator, Raymond Chandler, the #gin gimlet. Chandler's #LA set series of hard-boiled noir novels are among my favourite reads and one of the finest examples of the genre. Chandler's iconic prose had a beautiful, easy rhythm, creating a kind of urban poetry, while both his characterisation of knight errant Marlowe and the seedy, neon drenched world he evokes are masterfully realised. Like all great writers, he creates a living, breathing world with a pulse and through Marlowe he gives you the perfect 'private eyes' to experience it through. I have a theory that all stories are detective stories and that we're all detectives and it's a theme I explore in my own work as I find myself drawn into a mystery of my own involving a missing artist and a mysterious phone call in the dead of night... #EzraMaas www.deadinkbooks.com/crowdfund #books #writing #drinks #cocktails #gin #detective #mystery #thriller #bookstagram #crowdfunding

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books, writing, thriller, cocktails, cocktail, ezramaas, drinks, detective, crowdfunding, bookstagram, la, mystery, gin

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