Additional Chandler Resources

Chandler Resources:

Philip Marlowe in Film, Radio and Television
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/marlow2.html#anchor1848210

A Guide to Classic Mystery and Detection Home Page
http://members.aol.com/MG4273/chandler.htm

Authors and Creators – Raymond Chandler
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/chandler.html

Reviews from CrimeSpreeMagazine.com
http://www.crimespreemag.com/issue6reviews.pdf

Further Reading

Raymond Chandler: Later Novels & Other Writings Frank MacShane, Editor This companion highlights Chandler's later years. The darker, more anguished Philip Marlowe character characterizes this period. Also included, Chandler's long-unavailable screenplay for Double Indemnity, adapted from James M. Cain's novel, and a selection of essays in which Chandler muses on his pulp roots and letters about the worlds of writing, publishing, and filmmaking.

Hardboiled Mystery Writers: Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross MacDonald Matthew J. Bruccoli and Richard Layman, Editors Amply illustrated, this volume provides a documentary chronicle of the life beyond and the work of some of the most masterly detective novels in popular American literature. Correspondence and interviews record the literary tastes and intents of Chandler, Hammett, and Macdonald as well as their responses to judgments of their work in reviews of their books and the movies based on them.

Raymond Chandler: A Biography Tom Hiney Hiney's access to unseen personal papers, as well as previously unrecorded accounts of those who knew Chandler throughout his life, gave him an uncensored look at Chandler's life as an author, a husband, a screenwriter, and occasional rogue. Hiney evokes the strange years before Chandler was a writer, brings alive the dangerous glamour of the Hollywood era in which he flourished, and puts his screenwriting in the context of the organized crime and corruption of Los Angeles during Prohibition.

Collected Stories Raymond Chandler These 25 stories are where Chandler honed his art and developed his vivid underworld, peopled with good cops and bad cops, informers and extortionists, lethal blondes and redheads, and crime, sex, gambling, and alcohol in abundance. In addition to his classic hard-boiled stories, Chandler also turned his hand to fantasy and even a gothic romance.

Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959 Tom Hiney and Frank MacShane, Editors Because he lived a quiet existence darkened by his wife's recurring illnesses and his struggles with alcoholism, Chandler's letters were his sole connection to his friends, fans, publishers, and fellow writers from Ian Fleming to Somerset Maugham. Here, new selections of his correspondence -- much of it never before made public -- reveal all aspects of his powerful personality, artistic sensibility, and broad intellectual curiosity.

Online Resources

The Raymond Chandler Web Site

Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang

Dark City: Film Noir and Fiction