Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler was an American writer of the mid-20th century. His most famous work is the novella The Big Sleep, published in 1939. It is a detective story introducing the character Christopher Marlowe.

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• Lifetime: 23 July 1888 • 26 March 1959
• Main genre: Crime fiction, hardboiled-detective fiction
• Mid-2026 popularity rank: --

"There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science and the second is art."