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Raymond Chandler Speaking
Raymond ChandlerTough-minded and typically idiosyncratic, here is Chandler on Chandler, the mystery novel, writing, Hollywood, TV, publishing, cats, and famous crimes.
Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles
Raymond ChandlerRe-issued for the 50th anniversary of the film of Chandler's novel 'The Big Sleep', this homage to film noir is a visionary journey across a landscape of darkened bungalows, decaying office blocks and sinister nightspots - an atmospheric ...
Raymond Chandler in Hollywood
Al ClarkAnalyzes the screenplays for detective movies written by Raymond Chandler and examines the movie adaptations of his mystery novels
A Reader's Guide to Raymond Chandler
Toby WiddicombeThe author of such works as The Big Sleep (1939), Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Lady in the Lake (1943), and The Long Goodbye (1953), Raymond Chandler was one of the most popular mystery writers of his time.
Raymond Chandler: A Biography
Tom HineyBorn in Nabraska of Irish Quaker parents, educated at Dulwich College, and in the `mean streets' of Los Angeles about which he wrote, Raymond Chandler-writer, oil executive, poet, recluse, charmer, gentlman, drunk-was full of contradictions ...
Raymond Chandler
Jerry SpeirExamines each of Chandler's seven novels--including The Big Sleep and Farewell My Lovely--and his more than twenty short stories to reveal how Chandler's most prized creation--the character of Philip Marlowe--was introduced and developed
The Big Sleep and Other Novels
Raymond ChandlerRaymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939.
The Big Sleep
Raymond ChandlerThe Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler's most famous and popular novel of all Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family.
Private Eyes: One Hundred and One Knights : a Survey of ...
Robert Allen Baker... more than compensate for the early neglect. While the definitive biography is Prank Mac Shane's The Life of Raymond Chandler (Dutton, 1976; Pelican, 1978) two other sourc es of great value are Jerry Speir's Raymond Chandler (Frederick ...
Killer in the Rain
Raymond Chandler'Killer in the Rain' is vintage Chandler, the groundwork for his classic first novel The Big Sleep.
Report
Virginia. Secretary of the CommonwealthCouncil O. Fraser Murray, Mayor R. F. Atkins Owen Murray Merritt Young Sue N. Long Edward Chandler Curtis R. Wilson Officers Attorney W. W. Bennett, Jr. Treasurer Donna Chandler Clerk Donna Chandler Water Superintendent Fire Chief ...
New Perspectives on Detective Fiction: Mystery Magnified
PreviewJerry Speir, Raymond Chandler (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1981), 55–56. When we consider the parallels between Muriel's and Degarmo's bodies, Marlowe's description of the body in the lake appears less misogynistic than ...
Who Was Who on TV
Norman Chance... Sturman 2005- Little Erin Paris Yates 2005 Livia Frye Cudahy Tonya Pinkins 1991-1995, 2003- Liz Sloan Kimberly Foster 1994-1995 Liza Colby Chandler #2 Alice Haining 1984 Liza Colby Chandler Chandler #1 Marcy Walker 1981-1984, ...
Something More Than Night: The Case of Raymond Chandler
Peter WolfeSomerset Maugham and George Grella both rate him above Dashiell Hammett; Eric Partridge deems him “a serious artist and a very considerable novelist,” while praising him as “one of the finest novelists of his time.” Peter Wolfe ...
The Lady in the Lake
Raymond ChandlerThe Lady in the Lake is a classic detective novel by the master of hard-boiled crime Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery.
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George C. Chesbro"Not-quite-science fiction and suspense make a thrilling combination, and nobody works it better than Chesbro . . . Raymond Chandler meets Stephen King by way of Alice's looking glass."--"Playboy."
The Congressional Budget Office: Honest Numbers, Power, and ...
Philip G. JoyceClay Chandler and Eric Pianin, “Budget Scorekeepers Await Changes,” Washington Post, November 18, 1994, A25; Clay Chandler, “Hill Leaders Still Seeking CBO Chief,” Washington Post, December 22, 1994, B9. 112. Chandler, “ Hill ...
Coming Through: Voices of a South Carolina Gullah Community ...
Genevieve W. ChandlerVoices of a South Carolina Gullah Community from WPA Oral Histories Genevieve W. Chandler Kincaid Mills, Genevieve Chandler Peterkin, Aaron McCollough. She was not a prophet without honor in her own country. Adger Brown wrote of ...
Dick Francis
Melvyn P. BarnesMystery Writers Bruce Cassiday, General Editor Raymond Chandler by Jerry Speir P. D.James by Norma Siebenheller John D . MacDonald by David Geherin Victorian Masters of Mystery: From Wilkie Collins to Conan Doyle by Audrey ...
Ursula K. Le Guin
Barbara J. BucknallRECOGNITIONS detective/suspense Raymond Chandler By Jerry Speir P. D. James By Norma Siebenheller Ross Macdonald By Jerry Speir Dorothy L. Sayers By Dawson Gaillard Sons of Sam Spade: The Private Eye Novel in the '70s By ...
Buen perro! : amaestramiento sencillo para un comportamiento ...
Donna ChandlerWith Donna Chandler's program, pet owners will learn to train their dogs in just minutes a day.
Dashiell Hammett: Man of Mystery
Sally ClineIn this compact new biography, Sally Cline uses fresh research, including interviews with Hammett’s family and Hellman’s heir, to reexamine the life and works of the writer whom Raymond Chandler called “the ace performer.” Skyhorse ...
The secret of the Stratemeyer Syndicate: Nancy Drew, the ...
Carol BillmanRECOGNITIONS Mystery Writers Bruce Cassiday, General Editor Raymond Chandler by Jerry Speir P. D. James by Norma Siebenheller John D. MacDonald by David Geherin Victorian Masters of Mystery: From Wilkie Collins to Conan Doyle ...
Heaven Is a Beautiful Place: A Memoir of the South Carolina ...
Genevieve C. PeterkinA Memoir of the South Carolina Coast Genevieve C. Peterkin. Genevieve Chandler at Radio City Service Library, Bremerhaven, Germany, 1952 Genevieve Chandler, Library Story Hour, Bermerhaven, Germany, 1951 Genevieve Chandler.
Dream Makers: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers at Work
Charles Platt... Richard E. Ziegfeld Theodore Sturgeon by Lucy Menger detective/suspense The American Private Eye: The Image in Fiction by David Geherin Raymond Chandler by Jerry Speir Dashiell Hammett by Dennis Dooley Michael Innes by George ...
Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks And The Masters Of Noir
Geoffrey O'BrienDashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane, James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, David Goodis … these are a few of the masters of noir responsible for the great lurid paperbacks of the thirties, forties, and fifties.
The Skin Gods: (Byrne & Balzano 2)
Richard Montanari'How about Stephanie Chandler?' 'No. I can't say I know her, either.' Jessica took out a nine-by-twelve envelope, extracted a photograph, pushed it along the counter. It was an enlargement of the photograph from Stephanie Chandler's desk at ...
Conversations with Raymond Carver
Raymond CarverThis collection of Raymond Carver's interviews reveals him to have been perhaps the premier short-story writer of his generation, a lyric-narrative poet of singular resonance, and a staunch proponent of realistic fiction in the wake of ...
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