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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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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.

Phoenix police arrested 25-year-old Raymond French on Friday in connection with the May 2024 shooting death of 37-year-old ...

Murder. Marlowe. Mitchum. No one is a saint in the City of Angels. The immortal Robert Mitchum stars as Raymond Chandler's legendary detective Philip Marlowe in the neo-noir mystery Farewell ...