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506:(if I may call them great days) and it struck me that some of the writing was pretty forceful and honest, even though it had its crude aspect. I decided that this might be a good way to try to learn to write fiction and get paid a small amount of money at the same time. I spent five months over an 18,000 word novelette and sold it for $ 180. After that I never looked back, although I had a good many uneasy periods looking forward.
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Middleton struck me as having far more talent than I was ever likely to possess; and if he couldn't make a go of it, it wasn't very likely that I could." Accounting for that time he said, "Of course in those days as now there were ... clever young men who made a decent living as freelances for the numerous literary weeklies", but "I was distinctly not a clever young man. Nor was I at all a happy young man."
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footman hold its coat and snicker. Living at the end of the Far West, where the
American dream ran out of room, no hero has ever been more congruent with his landscape. Chandler had the right hero in the right place, and engaged him in the consideration of good and evil at precisely the time when our central certainty of good no longer held."
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756:(1950), a collection of many of his short stories, Chandler provided insight on the formula for the detective story and how the pulp magazines differed from previous detective stories:
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and sometimes admires Mexicans and Blacks, and who is a student of chess and classical music. He is a man who refuses a prospective client's fee for a job he considers unethical.
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2010:(2019). "Raymond Chandler: Mean Streets" in
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1982:. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.
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2039:MacShane, Frank, ed. (1981).
2027:Clues: A Journal of Detection
1996:. North Carolina: McFarland.
1987:Clues: A Journal of Detection
1973:The World of Raymond Chandler
1882:Raymond Chandler: A Biography
1121:"Raymond Thornton Chandler".
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922:Raymond Chandler bibliography
603:and his last completed work,
561:(1946). He had not written a
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2036:. New York: The Ecco Press.
1870:The Raymond Chandler Omnibus
1800:The life of Raymond Chandler
1320:Passenger Manifest SS Merion
804:, but his sharp and lyrical
711:The Life of Raymond Chandler
442:Canadian Expeditionary Force
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2543:Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
1992:Howe, Alexander N. (2008).
637:Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
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3169:English male screenwriters
2012:Varieties of Crime Fiction
1989:24.4 (Summer 2006): 15–29.
1936:Chandler, Raymond (2014).
1924:Chandler, Raymond (1985).
1917:Chandler, Raymond (1976).
1867:Chandler, Raymond (1969).
1776:Chandler, Raymond (1950).
1081:"The Simple Art of Murder"
1067:Pronzini & Adrian 1995
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452:(RAF) when the war ended.
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2032:MacShane, Frank (1976).
1956:Freeman, Judith (2007).
1879:Hiney, Tom (June 1999).
1797:MacShane, Frank (1976).
1255:New York Review of Books
915:
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433:Richard Barham Middleton
321:The Simple Art of Murder
217:Blackmailers Don't Shoot
3164:English mystery writers
3094:American male novelists
2083:Williams, Tom (2014).
752:In his introduction to
542:novel of the same title
424:The Westminster Gazette
3189:Novelists from Chicago
2055:From Lowbrow to Nobrow
1971:Gross, Miriam (1977).
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2702:and Per Wahlöö (1971)
2438:The Falcon Takes Over
2131:July 4, 2018, at the
2046:Moss, Robert (2002.)
1124:Columbia Encyclopedia
1018:, "About the Author".
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2958:William Kent Krueger
2470:The Brasher Doubloon
2405:Strangers on a Train
2255:The Lady in the Lake
1908:Bruccoli, Matthew J.
1852:. Houghton Mifflin.
1318:"Florence arrives",
971:The Lady in the Lake
659:Later life and death
579:Strangers on a Train
481:Erle Stanley Gardner
461:Dabney Oil Syndicate
304:The Lady in the Lake
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2904:T. Jefferson Parker
2886:T. Jefferson Parker
2742:William H. Hallahan
2616:Charlotte Armstrong
2494:Farewell, My Lovely
2241:Farewell, My Lovely
2183:, September 1, 2017
1676:"Entertainment" in
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1394:www.thekeptgirl.com
1368:The Strand Magazine
955:Farewell, My Lovely
927:Novels and novellas
863:San Fernando Valley
842:The Washington Post
707:Mount Hope Cemetery
669:clinical depression
649:Library of Congress
513:Farewell, My Lovely
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230:. His first novel,
97:Mount Hope Cemetery
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2844:Mary Willis Walker
2808:Stuart M. Kaminsky
2682:Donald E. Westlake
2341:Killer in the Rain
1960:. N.Y.: Pantheon.
1842:General references
1717:The New York Times
1682:, December 4, 1997
1578:, p. 275–276.
1269:"Raymond Chandler"
1184:. October 17, 2014
1143:The New York Times
1107:The New York Times
1031:. August 19, 2012.
780:Critical reception
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1859:978-0-520-20835-3
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1752:Los Angeles Times
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