When Raymond Chandler Gave J. Edgar Hoover a Hardboiled Snub
The Daily Beast: The long-time head of the FBI take not take insults well, and most people were too intimidated to try. But the creator of Philip Marlowe was made of tougher stuff.
Rex Stout (as probably everyone reading this blog knows) wrote an entire book devoted to tarnishing the image of the FBI, 1965's The Doorbell Rang. [The book was Stout's reaction to Fred Cook's The FBI Nobody Knows(1964); I think this is a link to the whole book:https://www.questia.com/library/98550550/the-fbi-nobody-knows]
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Rex Stout (as probably everyone reading this blog knows) wrote an entire book devoted to tarnishing the image of the FBI, 1965's The Doorbell Rang. [The book was Stout's reaction to Fred Cook's The FBI Nobody Knows(1964); I think this is a link to the whole book:https://www.questia.com/library/98550550/the-fbi-nobody-knows]
It remains my favorite Stout novel.
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