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Something More than Night: The Case of Raymond Chandler

By Peter Wolfe
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By Peter Wolfe
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Raymond Chandler's eminence as a mystery writer is unchallenged. Somerset Maugham and George Grella both rate him above Dashiell Hammett; Eric Partridge deems him "a serious artist and a very considerable novelist," while praising him as "one of the finest novelists of his time." Peter Wolfe examines the many sides of Chandler and his work-his apparent will to self-destruct, his obsession with beautiful women, and his apparent brush with homosexuality-and casts much new and needed light on ...

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LiteratureLiterary CriticismGenres & Literary FormsAmerican LiteratureMystery & Suspense Fiction - Literary Criticism20th Century American Literature - Pre WWII - Literary CriticismGeneral & Miscellaneous American Literature - Literary CriticismChandler, Raymond (1888-1959)->Criticism and interpretationDetective and mystery stories, American->History and criticism