Raymond Chandler, long a top talent in that exclusive ... bestselling books reads like a Who’s Who of whodunits—”The Big Sleep,” “Farewell, My Lovely,” “The Lady in the Lake ...

Near the bottom of a list of things crime fiction writer Raymond Chandler ... In pencil, Chandler — author of the acclaimed hard-boiled detective novels “The Big Sleep” (1939), “Farewell ...

The crime novelist Raymond Chandler (“The Big Sleep”) set most of his stories in Los Angeles during the 1930s and ’40s. In a short story of his called “Nevada Gas,”the subjects of the story make a ...

Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired to track down the blackmailers hounding a socialite who is now reaping the consequences ...