(1) The criminals are more interesting than the stoic shamus .(2) u2018This isn't some tacky shamus [private eye] getting caught out,u2019 said one media executive.(3) Switchblade in hand, Polanski advances on the cornered shamus , chastising Gittes for being a u2018nosy guy.u2019(4) Chandler, to whom pulp fiction had come late in life, had written his first Marlowe novel, u2018The Big Sleep, u2018in 1939, followed by six more novels about the L.A. shamus .
