Near the bottom of a list of things crime fiction writer Raymond Chandler hated was that ubiquitous Los Angeles demographic: “actors.” The list, simply titled “THINGS I HATE,” was one of ...

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 ...

The crime novelist Raymond Chandler (“The Big Sleep”) set most of his stories in Los Angeles during the 1930s and ’40s. In a short story of his called “Nevada Gas,”the subjects of the story make a ...

Although readers usually associate Raymond Chandler with the mean streets of Los Angeles, the Chicago-born writer did, in fact, spend much of his early life in England. He attended Dulwich College ...