Raymond Chandler News

"Tsk, tsk. Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains." - Philip Marlowe, private detective, in Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep" Don't worry.

Last month, the Tuesday night book group read Agatha Christie, the premier author of "cozy" or English village mysteries.

Ask anyone what first comes to mind when they think of Los Angeles, and he or she will mention the glitz and the glam, the celebrity tabloids, Hollywood mansions and palm tree-lined freeways.

If you'd like your children to become politicians or pop stars, by all means name them Barack and Britney.

Two of Nashville's best known artists have teamed up for a pair of shows that may present the finest painting we'll see in Nashville this year.

Legend has it that during the making of the classic film The Big Sleep , the story was so convoluted that neither the director nor the screenwriters could figure out who had killed the chauffeur.

Who is V.? What is the Tristero? Why do Tyrone Slothropa s sexual organs predict the approach of V-2 rockets? Mysteries have often fueled Thomas Pynchon a s plots, so ita s logical that hea s finally found his way to the private-eye novel.

Who is V.? What is the Tristero? Why do Tyrone Slothropa s sexual organs predict the approach of V-2 rockets? Mysteries have often fueled Thomas Pynchon a s plots, so ita s logical that hea s finally found his way to the private-eye novel.

Let others work themselves into high dudgeon if they want. Not me. I had more fun reading "Inherent Vice" than I've had reading a Thomas Pynchon novel since I read "V." in 1963 and "The Crying of Lot 49" three years later.

"Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean," Raymond Chandler's famous dictum states.

Welcome to the Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays, historical observances, etc., we couldn't cram into The Week in Preview.

SUSPECT SLEEPOVERS: Santa Barbara attorney Raymond David Chandler tells all - or almost all - in his book, All That Glitters: The Crime and the Cover-up , about how Michael Jackson often molested his then-13-year-old nephew.

Temecula Valley and the Inland Empire's alternative newspaper, since 2004. In May 2009 over 37,500 people read more than 91,000 pages to get their news, views, traffic, videos, music & food reviews, shouldn't you? UNDER MY SKIN - " THE AL BORDA STORY WHEN CREATIVITY AND DRIVE MEET IN T-TOWN, LOOK OUT HORACIO ALGER! Temecula, CA - " I've often said ...

Genre books dominate the fiction world - both P and E. Science fiction novels, romances, mysteries, thrillers and other genre works have their places.

"If she rolls over, she'll smother him" - Raymond Chandler, 'The Big Sleep'. If the quality of his acceptance speech was anything to go by, a reasonable man might have grounds to believe that John Bercow's election as Speaker was an outbreak of mass irony; constitutional performance art.

Tour guide Richard Schave shows some of the tools of the trade of the late crime author Raymond Chandler during the Esotouric's Raymond Chandler Bus Tour in Los Angeles.

A NEW event at this year's Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival will be a 'Big Read' aimed at getting people to discover one of the classics of the crime fiction canon a ' The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler.

I n the opening pages of Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep," Phillip Marlowe stares up at a "glass panel showing a knight in dark armor rescuing a lady" and observes that "sooner or later" he'll "have to climb up there and help him." In these famous few lines, Chandler establishes the hard-boiled hero as a modern-day knight -- only better.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of legendary American crime scribe Raymond Chandler , whose seven completed novels, including The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely and The Long Goodbye profoundly changed crime fiction and crime movies.

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