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July 23, 2006

Raymond Chandler

Chandler was an American novelist whose writings in the 1940s and 50s significantly impacted the crime thriller genre. His well-plotted and brutally realistic novels feature Philip Marlowe, a hard-boiled yet honorable private detective who became the prototype for the tough-guy private eye of many subsequent American detective novels. In order to indicate his contempt for an iconic filmmaker, Chandler coined a nasty nickname; who was the object of his scorn?
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