(otto friedrich) this seemed to offer an explanation to things.t was newer then and people thought that that's what drove people crazy. you're perfectly sane. i'd rather be insane and alive than sane and dead. (narrator) it started with prohibition -- the line between legal and illegal got fuzzy. nightlife went underground. that made it even more seductive and dangerous. we could travel there safely in pulp magazines with writer raymond chandler and his private eyes. in a novelist like james cain, we could find ourselves sucked into a twisted triangle of love, betrayal and murder. he knew crime, the power of absolute seduction. crime is a left-handed form of human endeavor. experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. just when you think one's all right, he turns legit. one of the things about detective stories, murder stories, whodunits, is no matter how bad they are, i've never seen anybody walk out on one, because it's a riddle, it's a puzzle and you want to puzzle it out. well, it was about 7:00. anyway, it was dark. what were you doin