sentences: "The Daily Yomiuri" called Calvino “a thinking man’s Philip Marlowe … a cynic on the surface but a romantic at heart.” "The Nation" calls Calvino “a worthy successor of Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe and Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer.” “Hewn from the hardboiled Dashiell Hammett/Raymond Chandler model, Calvino is a tough, somewhat tarnished hero with a heart of gold” (Mark Schreiber, "Japan Times").