Gumshoes, Guts, and Tyrant Gods: How Filipino noir survives Western detective fiction by Angeli Arellano
When not hot on the scent of a miscreant at large, the armchair detective staves off boredom by pretending to read their narrator’s mind. Congeniality, after all, is among their investigative toolkit. They never lose composure before their foes and partners in justice, because they never take their cases personally— their expeditions are merely a…