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 ... he was an executive with an independent oil company in Los Angeles until the depression cost him his job and he turned to fiction writing in 1933.

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 ...

Editors' note: The previous version of the story had incorrectly noted the developer Raymond Chan was associated with was ...