| It was eight-thirty when the telephone rang, and I knew it was Chandler, wanting to know when I was picking him up. |
| We have Raymond Chandler and James M Cain, reformed junkie James Ellroy and reformed bank-robber Edward Bunker among many others. |
| Chandler and his control team were commandeering juggernauts to block off the dock piers one at a time. |
| Chandler has somehow come to embody the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction, although he didn't create it. |
| His other books include studies of directors Robert Aldrich and David Lean and novelist Raymond Chandler. |
| It's a kind of hard-boiled detective novel in the style of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. |
