What is the author's style in Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler?

Farewell, My Lovely's structure follows the requisite form for the detective fiction genre. The book consists of forty-one chapters of varying lengths. The lengthier chapters in the novel are those in which a great deal of plot-furthering information is revealed. The novel's happenings are chronological and episodic in nature. That is to say, the chapters in Chandler's novel follow a linear time progression.