People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.

Parker). I knew he would now always be sick. Works


Novels
All the novels except The Thin Man were originally serialized in three four or five parts in various magazines.

'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon) Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man) and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse). : /dəˈʃiːl/; May 27 1894 – January 10 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories a screenplay writer and political activist.