Over 1K readers have voted on the 50+ books on Best Mystery Novels. Current Top 3: And Then There Were None, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Murder on the ...
This Raymond Chandler adaptation may be best known for being almost impossible to follow, but that doesn’t make it any less potent. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall bring their legendary charisma to a convoluted tale of criminality filled with noir intrigue. Co-written by William Faulkner and ...
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这类小说在西方小说史上亦有专门术语,即hard-boiled crime stories,意为冷硬派犯罪小说或硬汉派小说,它在欧美一直拥有一批相当数量的读者群,而Dashiell Hammett正是奠定冷硬派犯罪小说地位的大师级人物,之后Raymond Chandler又将其发扬光大。 先来说说我读的这个版本。这是美国的Literary Classics of the United States...
The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler’s masterpiece. The best crime novel ever written bar none. Almost single handedly Chandler invented the genre of the hard drinking, hard smoking, hard loving, sharply dressed, first person, private detective, with a wisecrack for every occasion, and a...
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While Rawlins is clearly in the tradition of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, and Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer, he differs sharply from these earlier fictional detectives in that Rawlins is an unlicensed private investigator with no background or training in law enforcement. Mos...
Double Indemnity is a 1944 film noir crime drama directed by Billy Wilder, co-written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, based on James M. Cain's 1943 novella of the same name, which originally appeared as an eight-part serial in Liberty magazine, beginning in February 1936. Phyllis Dietrichson...
Yes, the full title of this new book from Denise Mina isThe Second Murderer, A Philip Marlowe Novel. Few would dare to go there, but as a massive fan of her writing (The Long Drop,Conviction) am sure she will do Raymond Chandler’s infamous detective justice and add her own clever da...