Rather than spoil the plot for the book "Noir", I just want to mention that the story goes on to deal with artificial intelligence and the nature of memory. Some parts of the last 10% of the book reminded me of Bruce Sterling's "Schismatrix" set of stories. Another interesting point made in an aside is that one major aspect of Noir is that betrayal is ubiquitous and self-destructiveness tends to come to many in the morally ambiguous world of noir; I shall have to read some pure noir type stories to test these observations. I notice that the Library of America publisher has issued some of the works of Raymond Chandler, so I have yet another pile of stories to examine.
King Solomon once said, "Of the making of books there is no end." This is great if you are a reader, but a bit difficult for an aspiring writer as everything that can be told has been told in one form or another. One should always continue to try. It seems fairly universal that every human civilization or people-group has a story telling tradition, so at least if you are a good story teller the people won't mind hearing the story again.
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