Questions tagged [raymond-chandler]
Questions about the works of the American-British novelist and screenwriter Raymond Chandler (1888 – 1959) and his life as a writer. He is known for novels such as 'The Big Sleep' (1939), Farewell, My Lovely (1940) and The Long Goodbye (1953).
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Why did Miss Fromsett cover for a suspected murderer in The Lady in the Lake?
At the end of Chandler's The Lady in the Lake, when Kingsley is interrogated by Marlowe he says that he believes that his secretary Adrienne Fromsett knew that the person who called claiming to be his ...
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What is the meaning of the cabdriver's retort in Chandler's "The Long Goodbye"?
In Raymond Chandler's 1953 novel "The Long Goodbye" the following exchange occurs:
I got into the taxi and we went the three-odd blocks to my parking lot and shifted to my car. I held out ...
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An undecipherable part of 'Goldfish' by Raymond Chandler
"Listen," Sunset complained. "I don't know you from last Sunday's sports section. You may be all to the silk. I just don't know."
"Why'd you brace me?" I asked.
"You had the word, didn't you?"
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