Nick Carraway, PI

Was ‘The Great Gatsby’ the forerunner to the hardboiled crime story? (Caution: Many spoilers)

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In my younger years, my father gave me some advice — wait, that wasn’t me.

Let’s try again: In my younger years, I read The Great Gatsby twice. Once in high school, again in college, sprinting through its nine economically-written chapters so I could…