Shadow Ticket Group Read 2025

[Mark Kohut]

So, this first chapter alone seems to me most like the beginning of *Inherent
Vice *as TRP sets up
the private dick and the 'case"...this is obvious I know but back to basics.

Q: I am not great detective novel well-read enough nor well noir
movie-watched enough to know this:
I know many, many open with the 'dame' visiting our detective and some kind
of human entanglement
happens that matters for the case....Is it the case that most start with a
new dame that the detective
has never known?

Or why do both of Pynchon's similar mysteries start with, relatedly, a
woman with which the detective has some kind of history?
And, also,although I have to refresh the plot details, Maxine in her
mystery has a past entanglement emerge (but not at the beginning, right?)