37 days ago by bythefirelight

Farewell My Lovely Raymond Chandler Library of America, 1995 The problem with Chandler is that every time I read him I hear voices: Humphrey Bogart, Dick Powell, Robert Montgomery and even Gerald Mohr (thankfully, not Elliot Gould). Because I’ve listened to dozens of Richard Diamond radio shows Dick ...

38 days ago by Guillaume

" Sternwood: I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider. The orchids are an excuse for the heat. Do you like orchids? Marlowe: Not particularly. Sternwood: Nasty things! Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, and their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption." I know I alr ...

38 days ago by Chris Well

As a companion to our big list of 150+ Mystery Series: 1841-2010, here is a list of crime series from authors like Elmore Leonard, Donald Westlake, Harlan Coben, Robert B. Parker, Janet Evanovich, Gregory Mcdonald, Ross Thomas, Lawrence Block, Max Allan Collins, and more. In order of first publicati ...

39 days ago by Linus Fernandes

“Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. ” —Raymond Chandler Filed under: thought for today Tagged: Raymond Chandler

40 days ago by Brendan McGinley

New Cracked column to close out the year for you, though I think they're calling it "The Nine Biggest Bastards of 2011," which will surely rile everyone who thinks X doesn't belong in the company of... See it all at www.brendanmcginley.com

41 days ago by NAROLC

Raymond Chandler’s ears were like chandeliers. For his detective fiction, Chandler was respected by his peers, But with auditory organs resembling something crystalline He must have looked odd, Or perhaps he looked fine. Maybe his friends told one another: ‘Don’t mention Raymond’s ears when he appea ...

42 days ago by P.P.O. Kane

Double Indemnity By James M. Cain Vintage, 1989 ISBN: 9780679723226 As a writer, James M. Cain divides opinion. For Raymond Chandler, who adapted Double Indemnity for the screen under the aegis of Billy Wilder, Cain was ‘a writer of the faux naïf type’ and not to be taken at all seriously. By contra ...

42 days ago by driftwood

“We like lists because we don’t want to die”, says Umberto Eco. Not sure if that’s the reason I am writing this post but then the apocalypticaly tagged 2012 is also hanging close, so who knows what the subconscious mind may be cooking. Anyhow, coming back to the title of the post, I actually didn’t ...

42 days ago by Bertrand

«Há vários autores de policiais actuais que nos têm trazido experiências emocionantes e intrigantes, no entanto, continuo a sentir uma grande atracção pelos autores do início do século XX. Não há dúvida que foi o grande boom criativo deste género, com inúmeros obras a tornarem-se clássicos intempora ...

42 days ago by iansales

Christmas is over for another year, and life can now return to what passes for normal. Once again, I was in Denmark for the festivities, but this year it was wet and windy rather than the usual deep snow. There was a lot of eating involved, and a lot of walking. The day after Boxing Day, we went to ...