Author Raymond Chandler


Raymond Chandler

Nobody but Chandler could have created a private eye hero as cool as Philip Marlowe, but writers have been trying ever since the author's precedent-setting '40s crime novels were published. Along with Dashiell Hammett, Chandler is revered as a noir father figure; his creation of a romantic L.A. full of dangerous women and crooked characters is so woven into modern consciousness that it's easy to forget that it was fictional.

Books written by Raymond Chandler (3)

1. The Big Sleep
2. The Long Good-bye
3. The Long Goodbye