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 ...

Santa Ana winds in Southern California are often-fierce winds that topple power lines and trees and can turn a spark into a ...

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.