Creatures of Darkness: Raymond Chandler, Detective Fiction, and Film Noir

"[An] exhaustively researched survey of Raymond Chandler's thorny relationship with Hollywood during the classic period of film noir." -Alain Silver, film producer and author

Raymond Chandler's seven novels, including The Big Sleep (1939) and The Long Goodbye (1953), with their pessimism and grim realism, had a direct influence on the emergence of film noir. Chandler worked to give his crime novels the flavor of his adopted city, Los Angeles, which was still something of a frontier town, ri...