2. The hard-boiled detective novel was very close to film noir, its cinema counterpart: hard-boiled authors such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler also wrote for Hollywood, sometimes adapting their own novels or those of other hard-boiled authors such as James M. Cain. Look closely at the panels of this graphic novelization and at their sequences. How do they resemble film shots? What might be the advantages and disadvantages of this graphic form over film, or over the original text version of the story?
3. Look at the graphic sequence that begins with the panel "He told his friends that he had inherited a trust fund from his wife" and concludes with "But often these moments came less often now." What are the graphic elements that connect these panels into a sequence and how are they related thematically? What do these interconnections add to the narrative (e.g., the graphic transformations of the books into buildings, buildings into labyrinth, and labyrinth into fingerprint)?