Raymond Chandler
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- Author: Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Chandler is best known for his hard-boiled detective novels featuring Philip Marlowe. Chandler often used material from his short stories to create the novels, and Philip Marlowe’s character grew out of the various detectives in the short tales. This archetypal hero has been further popularized through many major motion pictures. Chandler wrote screenplays for six works by others. His works have been selected for Book-of-the-Month Club members, and his stories and novels have been collected in a number of editions. He also wrote criticism on the...
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