New book on the many faces of crime writer Raymond Chandler
Lit REACTOR, fair use Raymond Chandler, along with Dashiell Hammett before him and Ross Macdonald after, effected a startling change in the crime novel. As Chandler put it, he took the novel away from those who commit murder with “hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare, and tropical fish” and returned it to “the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse.” This passage from Chandler’s essay explaining his technique in “The Simple Art of Murder” is drippi...
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