Daily Mail Books Quiz

[bald eagle]

Help required, please
Question 2
Who, in a 1939 novel , charged 25 dollars, plus expenses?
Would appreciate any suggestions, please
Thank you
Kind regards

[Davemano]

Check out Philip Marlowe in the Big Sleep

[retrocop]

I think on tip of my tongue.US lawyer played by james stewart defending black American for rape may be or was it Gregory Peck?
To kill a Mocking Bird?

[Mamyalynne]

Philip Marlowe, the gumshoe creation of Raymond Chandler, had different fees depending on the year the book was written. In 1939, in The Big Sleep, he charged $25 a day, plus expenses. During and after WWII, he jacked it up to $50 (still plus expenses). IIRC, he usually took $100 or so as a retainer.

[Mamyalynne]

sorry Dave didn't refresh page

[retrocop]

Atticus Finch ?

[Davemano]

no worry

[retrocop]

Must be Mamalynnes answer then.

[Mamyalynne]

He may have been paid the same as Marlowe but the book came out in 1960.

[Mamyalynne]

Dave's answer really, I was still researching.

[retrocop]

The story was set in the 1930s though. Still I have no idea if Atticus even bothered to charge his client.

[bald eagle]

Thank you all for your prompt responses
Very grateful
Kind regard

[Davemano]

Pleasure