Burning Witches
Michael Rogin, 4 September 1997
Raymond Chandler: A Biography
by Tom Hiney.
Chatto, 310 pp., £16.99, May 1997,0 7011 6310 0 Show More
by Tom Hiney.
Chatto, 310 pp., £16.99, May 1997,
Raymond Chandler Speaking
edited by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker.
California, 288 pp., £10.95, May 1997,0 520 20835 8 Show More
edited by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker.
California, 288 pp., £10.95, May 1997,
“... In 1955, the Daily Express conducted a poll to discover the most popular celebrities according to highbrow, middlebrow and lowbrow tastes. Raymond Chandler and Marilyn Monroe were, as Chandler put it. ‘the only ones that made all three brows’. Chandler shattered cultural barriers with Philip Marlowe, private investigator, immortalised on the screen by Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep, mortalised by Dick Powell and Robert Montgomery during Chandler’s lifetime, and afterwards by Elliot Gould, Robert Mitchum and James Garner ... ”
