Chandler, Raymond

A twentieth-century American writer known for his hard-boiled mysteries featuring private detective Philip Marlowe, whose adventures chronicle the seamy underside of southern California . Many of his works, including The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely have been adapted for films.

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He brought me a box of James M. Cain and Raymond Chandler paperbacks, and I said, “Which one should I start with?”

Thompson is a master of voice—there are take-offs of both Raymond Chandler and Arthur Conan Doyle—as well as imagined geography.

Add A.J. Liebling, Raymond Chandler, Hammett, Cain, and the boys, Nelson Algren and William Kennedy.

The books, on the other hand, have attracted perhaps the smartest readership of any genre writer since Raymond Chandler.

He self-consciously tries to ape the mannerisms of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.

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