Crime fiction

In two hazy sequences, we get more of what we might have expected from the HBO series all along — bread crumbs that help piece together this slow-to-unfurl murder mystery.
The first-person narrator is the imposer of order in a world of chaos--or rather, deceit, lies, hypocrisy, where nothing is as it seems. And yet reading a classic of noir fiction like Dashiell Hammett's The Continental Op is a revelation.