Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at age 44, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the
Chandler c. 1943
A blue plaque marks the house in Cathedral Square where Chandler stayed in Waterford, Ireland.
Raymond and Cissy Chandler's tombstone
Philip Marlowe
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Philip Marlowe is a fictional private detective created by Raymond Chandler who was characteristic of the hardboiled crime fiction genre. The genre originated in the 1920s, notably in Black Mask magaz
Raymond Chandler
…the hardboiled school of detective fiction, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and other Black Mask writers. The protagonist of his novels, Philip Marlowe, like Hammett's Sam Spade, is considered by some to be synonymous with "private detective". Both were played in films by Humphrey Bogart, whom many…
Humphrey Bogart in the trailer for the 1946 film The Big Sleep
Photo of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall from the 1946 film The Big Sleep
Gerald Mohr in the CBS Radio series The Adventures of Philip Marlowe (1948–1951)