Raymond Chandler speaking
First edition (UK)
AuthorRaymond Chandler; edited by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreLiterary criticism
PublisherHamish Hamilton (UK)
Houghton Mifflin (US)
Publication date
1962
Media typePrint
Pages272
OCLC35192346
813/.52 B 20
LC ClassPS3505.H3224 Z47 1997

Raymond Chandler Speaking is a collection of excerpts from letters, notes, essays and an unfinished novel by the writer Raymond Chandler, compiled by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker in 1962.[1] The origins of the collection were contentious: after Chandler's death, his literary agent and lover, Helga Greene, and his private secretary, Jean Fracasse, entered into a legal battle over his estate, in which Greene prevailed.[2]

Contents

The collection includes excerpts from letters by Chandler on various subjects, including literature, film, fellow writers and cats, and the following longer pieces (previously unpublished except as noted):

  • "Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel"
  • "Notes on English and American Style"
  • "Writers in Hollywood" (previously published in the Atlantic Monthly)
  • "Ten Per Cent of Your Life" (Atlantic Monthly)
  • "A Couple of Writers"
  • "The Poodle Springs Story", a Philip Marlowe novel unfinished at the time of Chandler's death, in 1959. It was completed in 1989 by Robert B. Parker as Poodle Springs.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Gardiner, Dorothy; Walker, Kathrine Sorley (eds.) (1962, 1997²). Raymond Chandler Speaking. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-20835-8.
  2. ↑ "Kathrine Sorley Walker, dance critic – obituary". Daily Telegraph. April 23, 2015. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
  3. ↑ Blades, John (March 1, 1991). "Marlowe's Mean Streets: Tracking the Man Who Filled Raymond Chandler's Shoes". Chicago Tribune. p. 1. Retrieved March 4, 2010.
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