Philip Marlowe is a hard-drinking, tough-talking private detective created by Raymond Chandler. He is the protagonist in a series of eight novels, the first being The Big Sleep , published in 1939.CHANDLER'S STRAIGHT ARROW WHITE-KNIGHT by Dane YoussefPhillip Marlowe is the kind of guy we all needed at the birth cry of the 20th century. Hell, every era needs a man like this. Not just an ace detective, but a true white knight and a nobleman. His first cut his teeth as an investigator in college for an insurance company.The man smoke cigarettes most of the time--unfiltered Camels, just to prove how tough he is--but smokes the tobacco pipe in the privacy of his own him like Sherlock Holmes and any other polytypical detective. He makes himself lines of huge shots of Brandy and Whiskey--and downs them all in a row like vodka shots. When he drinks the java, he's such a real man, he doesn't even bother to use filters. With cream in the morning accompanying breakfast, but straight and black any other time. He's an intellect, but still somehow as a real man.Just to prove he's a true-blue intellect, he makes it a point to play Chess, often against himself or by mail.