Fat prosperous cops with Chamber of Commerce voices This type of character is depicted in a somewhat stereotypical and two-dimensional manner. The group of characters in question comprises Police Commissioner Randy Starr in The Long Goodbye, Chief of Police Wax in Farewell, My Lovely and Sheriff Petersen in The Long Goodbye. Randy Starr is the

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“Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of man, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get and we get things like this.” (The Lady In The Lake, p.151)

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