The Great Authors: Raymond Chandler!

Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) is probably my favorite writer. If he is, it's by a nose hair over Hammett. He started writing at 40, and published his first novel, The Big Sleep, 5 years after Hammett had stopped writing. With Philip Marlowe, Chandler took the PI story to heights it would only reach again in works that owed everything to Chandler. I can't recommend the novels enough, and the short stories collected in Trouble is My Business are also worth annual reads. I think you can get all of this stuff at Amazon. Enjoy!