A number of different characters are highlighted in this way, and this gives a curious sense of really getting to know the characters quickly.
The book has a sense of urgency as you read it because each of the chapters is written in the first person, but the chapters are not the first-person of the same character. For such a little book it has everything - irony, satire, unique plot, and suspense. Who cares if it was first published in 1946? It's just as fresh now as it was then. How does a man escape from himself? No book has ever dramatized that question to more perfect effect than The Big Clock, a masterpiece of American noir. Janoth badly wants to get his hands on that man, and he picks one of his most trusted employees to track him down: George Stroud, who else? Janoth knows there was one witness to his entry into Pauline’s apartment on the night of the murder he knows that man must have been the man Pauline was with before he got back but he doesn’t know who he was. The day after that, Pauline is found murdered in her apartment. The next day Stroud escorts Pauline home, leaving her off at the corner just as Janoth returns from a trip. One day, before heading home to his wife in the suburbs, Stroud has a drink with Pauline, the beautiful girlfriend of his boss, Earl Janoth. George Stroud is a hard-drinking, tough-talking, none-too-scrupulous writer for a New York media conglomerate that bears a striking resemblance to Time, Inc.
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