Noirsville Bonus - Literary Noir

Raymond Chandler "cannibalized" his short story "Try The Girl" (Black Mask) mid 1930s and used parts of it in Farewell My Lovely. 

Here is the original description used in the Chandler short story "Try The Girl" the original character was named Steve Skalla - 

"He wasn't just big. He was a giant. He looked seven feet high, and he wore the loudest clothes I ever saw on a really big man. Pleated maroon pants, a rough grayish coat with billiard balls for buttons., brown suede shoes with explosions of white kid on them, a brown shirt, a yellow tie, a large red carnation. On Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, with that size and that make-up, he looked about as unobtrusive as a tarantula on a piece of angel food."

Skalla morphed into Moose Malloy 

"He was a big man but not more than six feet five inches tall and not wider than a beer truck. He was about ten feet away from me. His arms hung loose at his sides and a forgotten cigar smoked behind his enormous fingers...

...He wore a shaggy Borsalino hat. A rough gray sports coat with white golf balls on it for buttons, a brown shirt, a yellow tie, pleated gray flannel slacks and alligator shoes with white explosions on the toes. From his outer breast pocket cascaded a show handkerchief of the same brilliant yellow as his tie. There were a couple of colored feathers tucked into the band of his hat, but he didn't really need them. Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a piece of angel food."

But neither film used the actual description of Moose.

Mike Mazurki as Moose Malloy and Bill Powell as Philp Marlowe in Murder My Sweet

Dan O'Halloran as Moose Malloy and Robert Mitchum as Philip Marlowe in Farewell My Lovely