Shadow Ticket Group Read 2026

[Mark Kohut]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 6:32 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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?)
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