Chandler: The writer in the Waterford Quaker

Advertisement Raymond Chandler is among our most stylized writers, an innovator of what we might call high noir, with its cut-glass imagery, its cynical world-weariness (although never ennui). Such a posture defines him — or, more accurately, ...

Chance by Kem Nunn is very much a book about entropy and darkness. (MCT) Is it too much to compare Kem Nunn to Raymond Chandler? Both have used the loose frame of genre to write enduringly and resonantly about the dark side of the California dream.

The spirits of Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain course through Black Coal, Thin Ice, a bleak but powerful, carefully controlled detective thriller in which — like all of the best noirs — there are no real heroes or villains, only various ...

What do Benjamin Black, Irish Detective Quirke, Raymond Chandler and Philip Marlowe all have in common? Author John Banville. Banville recently published The Black-Eyed Blonde, starring the iconic Chandlers Philip Marlowe, under his detective ...

SEVENTY-five years ago last week a revolution in crime-writing began when Knopf published The Big Sleep , Raymond Chandler's first novel. Reviews in 1939 were wary and unenthusiastic, however, and only gradually was it recognised that Chandler had ...

NEW YORK -- Point guard Raymond Felton returned to the New York Knicks' starting lineup Tuesday against Detroit, but Tyson Chandler sat out because of an illness. Felton missed six straight games with a strained right groin, getting hurt on Dec. 23 ...

A legendary gold coin -- the first of its kind ever minted in the U.S. and once featured in the plot of a Raymond Chandler novel -- has sold at an auction in Florida for more than $4.5 million. The Brasher doubloon was purchased for $4,582,500 by ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Sgt. Maj. of the Army Raymond F. Chandler III sat down with Team Bragg's enlisted soldiers this week for a candid discussion about the challenges, changes and priorities for tomorrow's Army. Chandler began each gathering with ...

In The Big Sleep, published 75 years ago this week, the reading public met a very different kind of detective for the first time