Argentine journalist Miguel Bonasso has noted that Raymond Chandler would have been hard put to create a fictional plot that could outdo Argentine reality: En la Argentina contemporanea, el novelista policial Raymond Chandler se hubiera muerto de hambre, porque le hubiera costado encontrar una trama mas negra, perversa, intrincada y decadente que la que suministran los medios a diario. ("A manera de prologo" no pag.)
