Twenty years after the 'Lady in the Lake' mystery was finally solved, doubts about the case remain - the body of Carol Park ...

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’s America: “Chandler’s view of American culture . . . is developed most plainly and relentlessly in The Long Goodbye, a novel unsparing of the idle, self-indulgent and ...

Raymond Chandler was an author and a screenwriter. He is best known for his detective novels and their protagonist, the private detective Philip Marlowe. His writing style, combining psychology ...

Raymond Chandler: Hardboiled Stories Amid Coastal Serenity Raymond Chandler, best known for creating the hardboiled detective Philip Marlowe, had a profound connection to San Diego through his ...

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 ...

I was calling on four million dollars.' Raymond Chandler's hardboiled crime-fiction classic introducing Philip Marlowe, first published in 1939. Starring Ed Bishop. Dramatised by Bill Morrison.

It’s where the best Los Angeles writers have done their work: literati like Nathanael West (“The Day of the Locust”), John Fante (“Ask the Dust”), Raymond Chandler (“Red Wind”) and ...

In the short story “Red Wind,” Raymond Chandler captured the emotional effect: “There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the ...