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Colson Whitehead and John Banville are two examples of literary novelists who started writing crime books.

Parker wrote one additional Marlowe book in 1991, but the revival series went quiet until 2014, when Booker Prize–winning novelist John Banville published “The Black-Eyed Blonde” under the pen name Benjamin Black.

Directed by Neil Jordan, starring Liam Neeson and based on Banville’s “The Black-Eyed Blonde,” “Marlowe” was beaten to a pulp by critics almost as badly as Neeson is in the picture.

He became the fifth Irish author to win the Booker Prize, after Iris Murdoch, John Banville, Roddy Doyle and Anne Enright, the organisers of the competition said.

John Banville: "What is it about the Irish that makes them so gifted as writers?"