Annotated and edited by Owen Hill, Pamela Jackson and Anthony Dean Rizzuto Vintage Books, $25, 512 pages “Raymond Chandler once wrote that ’some literary antiquarian of a rather special type may one ...

During slow stretches at Moe’s Books in Berkeley, Owen Hill says he and other staffers often entertained each other by quoting favorite lines from the work of Raymond Chandler, that legendary writer ...

When there’s so much going wrong in the real world, it can feel like a relief to escape into the wrongs of another world. Why else would crime fiction be having a moment right now? The Netflix series ...

THE LITTLE SISTER (249 pp.)—Raymond Chandler—Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). To be caught with a Raymond Chandler whodunit in hand is a fate no highbrow reader need dread. When The Big Sleep, his first, was ...

Chandler, best remembered for his hard-boiled detective novels, also wrote poetry. The poem, “Requiem,” was among papers his family donated to the University of Oxford in the 1980s. By Victor Mather ...

Perhaps I’m missing something. “The Goodbye Coast,” by Joe Ide, is billed as a “reinvention” of Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, one that drops the hard-boiled gumshoe (who first appeared in the ...