Everything That Dies, Some Day Comes Back

I watched these two adaptations of the Chandler novel on consecutive nights, and then quickly raced through the book itself for good measure. As he was wont to do Chandler created the novel from short stories he had previously written, in this instance no less than three of them.  In the novel these stories become two cases  which Marlowe is working on which at first appear to be unrelated but of course turn out not to be.  It's to Chandler's credit that he manages to connect them in a way which doesn't rely on mere coincidence. In the more memorable case, Marlowe is helping an ex-con Moose Malloy track down 'his little Velma' who he is still in love with despite her not writing to him or visiting him whilst he was serving time. In the other case, Marlowe is trying to get to the bottom of two related mysteries: who killed a guy called Marriott, and who stole a jade necklace belonging to Helen Grayle, the young and beautiful wife of a much older, but rich, man. Marlo...