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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?”
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Thompson is a master of voice—there are take-offs of both Raymond Chandler and Arthur Conan Doyle—as well as imagined geography.
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Add A.J. Liebling, Raymond Chandler, Hammett, Cain, and the boys, Nelson Algren and William Kennedy.
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The books, on the other hand, have attracted perhaps the smartest readership of any genre writer since Raymond Chandler.
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He self-consciously tries to ape the mannerisms of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.
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