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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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Howe, Alexander N. "The Detective and the Analyst: Truth, Knowledge, and Psychoanalysis in the Hard-Boiled Fiction of Raymond Chandler."
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1664:"Hard-Boiled Dialogue: From Philip Marlowe to Jake Lassiter"
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1925:. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.
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1989:Hiney, Tom and MacShane, Frank, eds. (2000).
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2021:(2019). "Raymond Chandler: Mean Streets" in
1615:. SignOnSanDiego.com. Retrieved 2011-11-26.
2155:"Down the Mean Streets with Philip Marlowe"
1837:. New York : Oxford University Press.
1831:Pronzini, Bill; Adrian, Jack, eds. (1995).
1602:. SignOnSanDiego.com. Retrieved 2011-11-26.
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2059:Raymond Chandler: A Literary Reference
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2052:Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler
1886:, Foreword by Powell, Lawrence Clark
845:Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler
3160:Deaths from pneumonia in California
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2083:. Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press.
1993:. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.
1953:. New York : Alfred A. Knopf.
1937:Raymond Chandler's Unknown Thriller
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1090:Chandler, Raymond (December 1944).
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2098:. New York: Chicago Review Press.
1986:. New York: A & W Publishers.
1943:). New York: The Mysterious Press.
1703:Woods, Paula L. (March 11, 2007).
1598:Bell, Diane (September 8, 2010).
1372:Trott, Sarah (February 16, 2017).
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1747:. Retrieved on September 8, 2017.
1662:Paul Levine (December 16, 2014).
1611:Bell, Diane (February 14, 2011).
1516:Gustini, Ray (January 10, 2012).
1344:Hawthorn, Tom (August 14, 2018).
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1814:. New York : E. P. Dutton.
1722:Sante, Luc (February 18, 2007).
1492:"The 19th Academy Awards | 1947"
1467:"The 17th Academy Awards | 1945"
1262:"The Knight of Sunset Boulevard"
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1260:Iyer, Pico (December 6, 2007).
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2081:Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles
2061:, New York: Carrol & Graf.
1444:, New York: Vintage, p. xvii.
1150:"Chapter One Raymond Chandler"
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2050:MacShane, Frank, ed. (1981).
2038:Clues: A Journal of Detection
2007:. North Carolina: McFarland.
1998:Clues: A Journal of Detection
1984:The World of Raymond Chandler
1893:Raymond Chandler: A Biography
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572:(1946). He had not written a
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2047:. New York: The Ecco Press.
1881:The Raymond Chandler Omnibus
1811:The life of Raymond Chandler
1331:Passenger Manifest SS Merion
815:, but his sharp and lyrical
722:The Life of Raymond Chandler
453:Canadian Expeditionary Force
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2023:Varieties of Crime Fiction
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1947:Chandler, Raymond (2014).
1935:Chandler, Raymond (1985).
1928:Chandler, Raymond (1976).
1878:Chandler, Raymond (1969).
1787:Chandler, Raymond (1950).
1092:"The Simple Art of Murder"
1078:Pronzini & Adrian 1995
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2188:"Cheap Truth 11 – page 2"
2118:Works by Raymond Chandler
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946:and published in 1989 as
304:Crime Writers Association
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2345:The Simple Art of Murder
2043:MacShane, Frank (1976).
1967:Freeman, Judith (2007).
1890:Hiney, Tom (June 1999).
1808:MacShane, Frank (1976).
1266:New York Review of Books
741:San Diego Superior Court
444:Richard Barham Middleton
332:The Simple Art of Murder
228:Blackmailers Don't Shoot
3175:English mystery writers
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2094:Williams, Tom (2014).
763:In his introduction to
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435:The Westminster Gazette
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2066:From Lowbrow to Nobrow
1982:Gross, Miriam (1977).
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2449:The Falcon Takes Over
2142:July 4, 2018, at the
2057:Moss, Robert (2002.)
1135:Columbia Encyclopedia
1029:, "About the Author".
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1863:. Houghton Mifflin.
1329:"Florence arrives",
982:The Lady in the Lake
670:Later life and death
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472:Dabney Oil Syndicate
315:The Lady in the Lake
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2505:Farewell, My Lovely
2252:Farewell, My Lovely
2194:, September 1, 2017
1687:"Entertainment" in
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1379:The Strand Magazine
966:Farewell, My Lovely
938:Novels and novellas
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853:The Washington Post
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680:clinical depression
660:Library of Congress
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108:Mount Hope Cemetery
32:Raymond F. Chandler
2855:Mary Willis Walker
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2693:Donald E. Westlake
2352:Killer in the Rain
1971:. N.Y.: Pantheon.
1853:General references
1728:The New York Times
1693:, December 4, 1997
1589:, p. 275–276.
1280:"Raymond Chandler"
1195:. October 17, 2014
1154:The New York Times
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