Michael Connelly’s detective novel
The Concrete Blonde contains one Shakespeare reference. It is a
Hamlet reference. After Bosch hears the
verdict in his trial, he asks, “What about Chandler?” Belk, his lawyer, answers:
“Well, there’s the rub, so to speak. The jury found for the plaintiff so we are
going to have to pick up her tab” (p. 356). “There’s the rub” comes from Hamlet’s
most famous soliloquy.
The Concrete Blonde
was published in 1994.
