Near the bottom of a list of things crime fiction writer Raymond Chandler ... up the driveway of an old mansion tucked in the hills. At the peak of his success, Chandler was a Hollywood player ...

A portrait of Raymond Chandler, creator of the Philip Marlowe mystery thrillers, by John Foster and Fred Burnley. The film portrays Chandler's life and creative attitudes in his own words.

Raymond Chandler, long a top talent in that exclusive limb of literature, the mystery writers, died at La Jolla yesterday of bronchial pneumonia. The 70-year-old author was one of a small core of ...