Our crime columnist recommends books starring hard-boiled investigators who are ready to travel down the meanest streets to root out the darkest truths. By Sarah Weinman Chandler, best remembered for ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In his dreams, Raymond Chandler could conjure tales as unsettling as some of his greatest novels, as if haunted by the spirits of Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe. “Nightmare,” a brief and ...

“All us tough guys are hopeless sentimentalists at heart,” author Raymond Chandler once wrote. “All us tough guys are hopeless sentimentalists at heart,” author Raymond Chandler once wrote. The ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Near the end of 1954, the wife of Raymond Chandler died after a long battle with lung disease. The famed crime novelist fell into near-suicidal depression from which he never recovered ...

LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — When it came to death and where someone spends their eternal rest, literature’s most hard-boiled detective, Philip Marlowe, was pretty cynical. “What does it matter where you ...

The number of people who actually knew Raymond Chandler and who are still alive can pretty much be counted on one hand. Chandler died 50 years ago last week, on March 26, 1959, at the age of 70. Among ...

In mid-December I opened my computer to find a slew of emails from friends. They all sent the same article from the Guardian, with the headline “[R]are Raymond Chandler poem discovered by US editor.” ...

A home on Camino de la Costa once owned by mystery novelist and screenwriter Raymond Chandler has sold for $6 million, according to public records and Bird Rock real estate agent Dennis DeSouza, who ...

Raymond Chandler's Trouble Is My Business is to be adapted as a graphic novel by screenwriter and graphic novelist Arvind Ethan David, and artists Ilias Kyriazis and Cris Peter. Edward Kastenmeier at ...

FILE - This 1946 file photo shows mystery novelist and screenwriter Raymond Chandler. A rare and newly published Raymond Chandler poem is an ode to his late wife, Cissy. (AP Photo, File) NEW YORK (AP) ...