Trouble Is My Business

incrediblebittersweet: Dutch version of The Long Goodbye,...

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:24:44 -0400

Dutch version of The Long Goodbye, published 1956

Trouble in Angel City The “Los Angeles History...

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 07:59:41 -0400

Trouble in Angel City

The “Los Angeles History Project” is a four-part documentary series aired by television station KCET in 1988. The third installment, “Trouble in Angel City”, focuses on Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles. Narrated by actor Richard Widmark, the episode “views the city’s ‘mean streets’ of the ’30s and ’40s through the eyes of famed mystery writer Raymond Chandler. The widespread crime and corruption described by Chandler are artfully juxtaposed with the anti-criminal exploits of a real-life private eye named Harry Raymond.“(1)

The half-hour episode is broken into three parts on YouTube.

View Part Two

View Part Three

(1)TV REVIEW : A Historic View of Los Angeles in KCET Series

Raymond Chandler Loved Cats!

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 16:00:29 -0400

Raymond Chandler Loved Cats!:

An old post from the Portland Mercury’s Blogtown that presents evidence that Chandler, if he lived today, could well be one of those people who operates a Facebook or Twitter profile on behalf of his cat.

Study Raymond Chandler's Novels with author James Grady at Politics & Prose Bookstore, Washington, DC

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 07:47:05 -0400

Study Raymond Chandler's Novels with author James Grady at Politics & Prose Bookstore, Washington, DC:

simpleartofmurder:

A two-hour class focusing on three of Chandler’s most famous prose works: The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye and Farewell, My Lovely. Wonder if they still have any seats open… (Nov. 5 & 9, 2012, site has details)

Miss Marple vs. Phillip Marlowe FIGHT!A short Wall Street...

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:32:39 -0400

Miss Marple vs. Phillip Marlowe

FIGHT!

A short Wall Street Journal piece contrasting, mostly, an Agatha Christie essay on detective fiction - wherein she, essentially, compares her style of detective fiction with a bracing go at a crossword puzzle - with Chandler’s “The Simple Art of Murder”.

via: simple art of murder on Pinterest

"For 30 years, ten months, and four days, she was the light of my life, my whole ambition. Anything..."

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 22:28:12 -0400

“For 30 years, ten months, and four days, she was the light of my life, my whole ambition. Anything else I did was just the fire for her to warm her hands at.”

- Raymond Chandler on Cissy Pascal, quoted in “Burning Witches” by Michael Rogin, London Review of Books (Sept 1997). One of my lost habits from grad school is faithfully reading the LRB. This is from Michaelmas 1997, St Antony’s Common Room. (via smalldemonsblog)

Read “Spanish Blood”.

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:58:52 -0400

Read “Spanish Blood”.

openroadmedia: New Raymond Chandler Biography. Mark at the Rap...

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:56:58 -0400

openroadmedia:

New Raymond Chandler Biography. Mark at the Rap Sheet does an interview with the author here.

vintageanchor: “I have made three rules of writing for myself...

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:00:34 -0400

vintageanchor:

“I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss a work in progress. Never answer a critic.”

— Raymond Chandler

unladyliketales: Again, a clipping from Harper’s. Raymond...

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:26:48 -0400

unladyliketales:

Again, a clipping from Harper’s. Raymond Chandler is most famous for his “Chandlerisms,” another word for his odd metaphors.

condalmo: Ten Commandments for the Detective Novel

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 10:54:49 -0400

condalmo:

Ten Commandments for the Detective Novel

dirtyriver: fuckyeahraymondchandler: yourcatwasdelicious: raym...

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:46:54 -0400

dirtyriver:

fuckyeahraymondchandler:

yourcatwasdelicious:

raymond chandler

The text on the illustration reads: Raymond Chandler before the Hollywood Public Library where Philip Marlowe consults the famous original editions before going to the pornographer Arthur Geiger in “The Big Sleep”.

Anyone know the source of this illustration?

This is an illustration by French artist Jean-Claude Clayes for a Patricia Highsmith article entitled “Chandler for ever”, published in the October 1984 issue of Le Magazine Littéraire.

Go there for Claeys’s blog post and a bigger, better picture.

Many thanks!

While it shares only the title of Raymond Chandler’s short...

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 12:33:05 -0400

While it shares only the title of Raymond Chandler’s short story, Trouble Is My Business is an interesting and good-looking film project in search of funding. For more information and 17 minutes of the film, visit the production’s Kickstarter page.

John Banville’s Terrible Idea to Write a New Novel on Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:08:00 -0400

John Banville’s Terrible Idea to Write a New Novel on Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe:

Hear hear, Malcolm Jones! I saw this news a couple of days ago but felt it was too wretched to post about. Jones illustrates why.

vintageanchor: “I’m a licensed private investigator and have...

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 20:28:38 -0400

vintageanchor:

“I’m a licensed private investigator and have been for quite a while. I’m a lone wolf, unmarried, getting middle-aged, and not rich. I’ve been in jail more than once and I don’t do divorce business. I like liquor and women and chess and a few other things. The cops don’t like me too well, but I know a couple I get along with. I’m a native son, born in Santa Rosa, both parents dead, no brothers or sisters, and when I get knocked off in a dark alley sometime, if it happens, as it could to anyone in my business, nobody will feel that the bottom has dropped out of his or her life.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

Read The Man Who Liked Dogs here.

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:18:48 -0400

Read The Man Who Liked Dogs here.

Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:26:22 -0400

Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang

Raymond Chandler at Small Demons

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:15:42 -0400

Raymond Chandler at Small Demons:

See what people, places and things have been mentioned in Chandler’s books and find out what other books have mentioned Chandler and his work at Small Demons, a sort of search engine for books. Still in its early days, Small Demons intends to catalogue all the people, places, and things in the “Storyverse”.

ratatoskm15: Strangers on a Train directed by Alfred Hitchcock...

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:55:04 -0400

ratatoskm15:

Strangers on a Train directed by Alfred Hitchcock 1951

One of his absolute classics with great performances by Farley Granger and Robert Walker and scripted by Raymond Chandler

Taglines:

A girl in love with young America’s idol—and a good-looking stranger in search of sensation—that’s how it all began..! Warner Bros. bring a pounding new tempo to motion picture entertainment!

Now a very special Alfred Hitchcock event! A hundred and one breathless minutes of matchless suspense!

It begins with the shriek of a train whistle and ends with shrieking excitement! Young America’s idol - a good looking stranger in search of sensation - and a girl in love. These are the people around whom Alfred Hitchcock spins his wonderful new web of suspense and surprise. WARNER BROS. bring a pounding new tempo to motion picture entertainment.

A tennis star plays a match with murder!

You’ll be in the grip of love’s strangest trip!

It’s Off The Beaten Track!

It starts with a shriek of a train whistle…and ends with shrieking excitement.

Quotes:

Barbara Morton: I still think it would be wonderful to have a man love you so much he’d kill for you.

Bruno Anthony: How do you do, sir? I’d like to talk with you sometime, sir, and tell you about my idea for harnessing the life force. It’ll make atomic power look like the horse and buggy. I’m already developing my faculty for seeing _millions_ of miles. And Senator: can you imagine being able to smell a flower - on the planet Mars? I’d like to have lunch with you someday soon, sir. Tell you more about it.

Senator Morton: Poor unfortunate girl.
Barbara Morton: She was a tramp.
Senator Morton: She was a human being. Let me remind you that even the most unworthy of us has a right to life and the pursuit of happiness.
Barbara Morton: From what I hear she pursued it in all directions.

Bruno Anthony: Don’t worry, I’m not going to shoot you, Mr. Haines. It might disturb Mother.

Bruno: My theory is that everyone is a potential murderer.

Barbara Morton: Oh, Daddy doesn’t mind a little scandal. He’s a senator.

Bruno Anthony: I have a theory that you should do everything before you die.

Guy Haines: I may be old-fashioned, but I thought murder was against the law.

Bruno Anthony: Everyone has somebody that they want to put out of the way. Oh now surely, Madam, you’re not going to tell me that there hasn’t been a time that you didn’t want to dispose of someone. Your husband, for instance?

Senator Morton: You had no trouble, of course, with the police once they verified your alibi?
Guy Haines: When an alibi is full of bourbon, sir, it can’t stand up.

Mrs. Anthony: Well, I do hope you’ve forgotten about that silly little plan of yours.
Bruno Anthony: Which one?
Mrs. Anthony: About blowing up the White House.
Bruno Anthony: Oh, Ma, I was only fooling. Besides, what would the President say?
Mrs. Anthony: You’re a naughty boy, Bruno.

Almar Haflidason wrote on the BBC website

“Hitchcock’s favourite device of an ordinary man caught in an ever-tightening web of fear plunges Guy into one of the director’s most fiendishly effective movies. Ordinary Washington locations become sinister hunting grounds that mirror perfectly the creeping terror that slowly consumes Guy, as the lethally smooth Bruno relentlessly pursues him to a frenzied climax. Fast, exciting, and woven with wicked style, this is one of Hitchcock’s most efficient and ruthlessly delicious thrillers.”

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