NEW YORK (AP) — In his dreams, Raymond Chandler could conjure tales as unsettling as some of his greatest novels, as if haunted by the spirits of Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe. “Nightmare,” a brief and ...

Our crime columnist recommends books starring hard-boiled investigators who are ready to travel down the meanest streets to root out the darkest truths. By Sarah Weinman Chandler, best remembered for ...

“All us tough guys are hopeless sentimentalists at heart,” author Raymond Chandler once wrote. “All us tough guys are hopeless sentimentalists at heart,” author Raymond Chandler once wrote. The ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Near the end of 1954, the wife of Raymond Chandler died after a long battle with lung disease. The famed crime novelist fell into near-suicidal depression from which he never recovered ...

Raymond Chandler's first novel published in 1939 has been hit by a trigger warning by its publisher because of its 'outdated language'. The Big Sleep is considered to be an all time best work of crime ...

LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — When it came to death and where someone spends their eternal rest, literature’s most hard-boiled detective, Philip Marlowe, was pretty cynical. “What does it matter where you ...

In mid-December I opened my computer to find a slew of emails from friends. They all sent the same article from the Guardian, with the headline “[R]are Raymond Chandler poem discovered by US editor.” ...

A home on Camino de la Costa once owned by mystery novelist and screenwriter Raymond Chandler has sold for $6 million, according to public records and Bird Rock real estate agent Dennis DeSouza, who ...

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FILE - This 1946 file photo shows mystery novelist and screenwriter Raymond Chandler. A rare and newly published Raymond Chandler poem is an ode to his late wife, Cissy. (AP Photo, File) NEW YORK (AP) ...