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Los Angeles may have found her Virgil in an Anglo-Irish-American detective novelist named Raymond Chandler (1888-1959). The character Chandler led through L.A.’s underworld in 7 now-classic novels was Philip Marlowe, a wise-cracking private eye whose

Unmasking Chandler: What “Nightmare” Reveals About the Writer Behind Marlowe by Tom Williams “Nightmare,” by Raymond Chandler, may not have the energy of his best fiction, but it remains a fascinating piece that sheds new light on his early career. I