The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Chandler, Raymond. Farewell, My Lovely. New York: Vintage, 1940.

———. The Long Goodbye. New York: Vintage, 1953.

Gardiner, Dorothy and Kathrine Sorley Walker, eds. Raymond Chandler Speaking. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997.

Hiney, Tom and Frank MacShane, eds. The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909–1959. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000.

Luhr, William. Raymond Chandler and Film. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1982.

MacShane, Frank. The Life of Raymond Chandler. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1976.

———, ed. Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981.

Marling, William. Raymond Chandler. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1986.

Phillips, Gene D. Creatures of Darkness: Raymond Chandler, Detective Fiction, and Film Noir. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000.

Van Doren, J.K., ed. The Critical Response to Raymond Chandler. London: Greenwood Press, 1995.

Wolfe, Peter. Something More Than Night: The Case of Raymond Chandler. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1985.

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