Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.
James EllroyMy father actually went to college, and my mother went to nursing school, so, you know. I wouldn't... They were actually too square and right-wing to be hip, too well-educated to be white trash, too sexy to be square. They really didn't fit any mold. They weren't really hipsters. They were just - they were two of a kind, those two.
James Ellroy