tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8642572350012157906.comments2009-08-18T18:56:13.592-04:00Robertnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8642572350012157906.post-6094206194594197182009-08-18T18:56:13.592-04:002009-08-18T18:56:13.592-04:00And bloody good piece it is.ARCHAVISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10935686140719743351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8642572350012157906.post-36734367912925447392009-07-14T00:03:32.741-04:002009-07-14T00:03:32.741-04:00Adrian Wootton in &#39;Sight and Sound&#39; magazine (July &#39;09) agrees with you, in a brief sidebar to a four-pager on &#39;Strangers on a Train,&#39; for which Chandler wrote the original screenplay.PChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8642572350012157906.post-25513092129333523872009-04-22T21:43:00.000-04:002009-04-22T21:43:00.000-04:00What a treat to see those pictures. Thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8642572350012157906.post-27135585186396766252009-04-18T21:32:00.000-04:002009-04-18T21:32:00.000-04:00It was a real delight to have you contributing to The Rap Sheet. I hope you'll be willing to do it again someday.<br /><br />Cheers (which is wholly appropriate in this case),<br />JeffJ. Kingston Piercehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17073921191624535912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8642572350012157906.post-28179581014092732452009-04-06T11:16:00.000-04:002009-04-06T11:16:00.000-04:00Looks like Chandler oke! Well spotted.Shanenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8642572350012157906.post-20052293410070503562009-03-15T16:39:00.000-04:002009-03-15T16:39:00.000-04:00Hi Robert. I was at a tour of The Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills yesterday and of course it was the scene of the murder/suicide of Ned Doheny and his valet/lover Hugh Pucket in 1929. To this day it remains the only open murder case in the Beverly Hills Police Archive.<BR/>I seem to recall reading a letter by Mr. Chandler to a close friend involving the truth behind the cover-up and have sadly lost the data I had on file. <BR/>I am writing a book on the fascinating tragedy and wonder if you or any of your blog members could please direct me to this letter?<BR/>I read every Chandler book and story while still in Jr. High (middle school now) and he is indeed one of my top literary heros. <BR/>Thank you in advance for any aid in this matter.<BR/>Sincerely, Dan Wilcox.<BR/>Long Beach, CA.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8642572350012157906.post-87382907753154954592009-03-02T23:46:00.000-05:002009-03-02T23:46:00.000-05:00Robert,<BR/><BR/>Glad to see you are back in the Chandler business - sort of. <BR/><BR/>Your book, &quot;Raymond Chandler, A Literary Reference,&quot; inspired me - and gave me some leads as I developed my website devoted to Chandler. <BR/><BR/>As a native of Los Angeles, and still a resident, I have an advantage over other sites in that I know the town as well as Chandler did. My site is a bit dormant at the moment as I restore two circa 1907 Folmer &amp; Schwing #8 Revolving Back Cycle Graflex Cirkut Cameras, so I can take Panoramas with them matching a 1916 Panorama of the Sennett Studios and a 1923 Panorama of down town Los Angeles I&#39;ve collected.<BR/><BR/>In the near future I&#39;ll finish two 1080P HD time-lapse videos: The Nevada Gas Ride and The Little Sister Ride, as well as post another 100 or so vintage original images, and more of the 3000 photos I&#39;ve taken of L.A. I also have to finish an essay on the Thelma Todd case in my true crime section, add a section about the Cirkut Camera, and finally finish a page about Chandler&#39;s secretary at Paramount, Dorothy Fisher, who died December last at 87. <BR/><BR/>I was lucky enough to shoot a number of pictures of Dorothy, scan some pictures of her and Ray, a couple of letters he wrote her, and recorded a 90 minute oral history with her. <BR/><BR/>I&#39;ve also been to the LA County recorder&#39;s and found the formal (recorded) 1930 legal separation agreement between Cissy &amp; Ray and a couple of deeds for oil property he purchased with his boss at the oil company. I&#39;ve also found and corrected a number of facts regarding Chandler -- i.e., his mother died in 1923 not 1924, etc.<BR/><BR/>Most of the material is on line right at this moment. <BR/><BR/>Of course, I&#39;m not interested in the academic side of things, criticism or symbolism, etc., even though I have two MAs and was in USC&#39;s PhD program (dropped out to make a living in 1972). <BR/><BR/>My site is for those fans who want to know what Los Angeles was like between 1913 and 1946, the years Chandler lived here in the LA area.<BR/><BR/>In that sense my site has much more depth than any other Chandler site, due to all the original and often rare photos, postcards and maps. My collections represents over $10K spent on eBay over the last four years. <BR/><BR/>I also have a link on my site to your site. If you feel so inclined, I would appreciate a link on your site to mine: http://raymondchandler.info<BR/><BR/>Keep up the good work.<BR/><BR/>Loren LatkerLorenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04324854748767251217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8642572350012157906.post-74384439942568140842009-02-24T11:48:00.000-05:002009-02-24T11:48:00.000-05:00I found your site this morning and printed out your blog to read over my coffee in the cafeteria, before I started work. First rate. I appreciate Chandler very much and am just going back to reread him after a few years away. I'm not an essayist or scholar, just a fan, and I plan to criuse the rest of your site and learn from it. I can understand that it can be disheartening sometimes, but there are still many of us out here who appreciate the work you do, and share your interest. Your efforts are appreciated.Tunbridge Wellsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8642572350012157906.post-83257319324134113652009-02-23T18:48:00.000-05:002009-02-23T18:48:00.000-05:00Well I for one am interested and impressed with both your previous site and your blog here. I am an undergraduate currently writing her dissertation on the works on Chandler and Ellroy in relation to the landscape of LA, and whilst i have great access to Senate House, JSTOR, Muse etc., I am always on the lookout for any information that might lead to further study. To be honest, it is difficult to find academic information on Chandler that doesn't insist on one viewpoint (!), and pretty much information on Ellroy anywhere is difficult to locate. So, I can only hope that blogs like this can shed any light on, well, anything - I want to know so much more about Chandler and critical approaches to him! ThanksErinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01156977839180319969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8642572350012157906.post-17192943654190101022009-02-05T14:12:00.000-05:002009-02-05T14:12:00.000-05:00As an ex-Angelino I will always have a softspot for Raymond Chandler's work. He is still and underrated writer. He also captured Los Angeles as well as anybody ever has. Keep up the good work. I periodically visit this site over the years, when I need a Chandler hit.Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08486956717569817193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8642572350012157906.post-77528247875631677552008-11-30T12:49:00.000-05:002008-11-30T12:49:00.000-05:00I just found your site via the Wikipedia entry on Chandler. Great stuff! I'm finally getting around to reading some Chandler, after years of distractions. (Halfway through <I>The Big Sleep</I>.) I'm reading it on my Amazon Kindle and loving it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8642572350012157906.post-79341802309378497722008-11-20T09:15:00.000-05:002008-11-20T09:15:00.000-05:00Great to see the web-page reborn.<BR/>Greeting from IrelandAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8642572350012157906.post-33617573341692969682008-11-20T01:14:00.000-05:002008-11-20T01:14:00.000-05:00Pobert<BR/>Really interested in your comments on Chandler. Stumbled across your web whilst researching for a similar attempt on my part, not confined to one author but a review of the pulp fiction era (my favorite). Nobody writes like the artists of that genre anymore. <BR/>How would today’s crime caper author say “You're not a detective, you're a slot machine. You'd slit your own throat for 6 bits plus tax.”<BR/>Somehow there was more romance in those old detective stories – described without street language so popular these days.<BR/>So if you do continue with the blog on Chandler I’d be privileged to tag along.<BR/><BR/> T Corbin tcorbin4@cox.net<BR/>Blog http://nooyawklady.blogspot.comTom Corbinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08389871021209499233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8642572350012157906.post-28525562027552330342008-11-11T21:27:00.000-05:002008-11-11T21:27:00.000-05:00Dear Robert,<BR/><BR/>this is a great entry on Chandler! My name is Peter Ricci, and I am a college student and writer who currently contributes to Too Shy to Stop, an upstart online magazine focused on culture and the arts.<BR/><BR/>I found you entry, as it would turn out, while doing research for my own essay on Chandler. I focus on some of the more remarkable characteristics of Chandler's work, especially his dialogue and use of symbolism.<BR/><BR/>I am pleased to inform you that no, your Chandler site is not a failure! I am happy to see you are resuming work on it, as the essays, criticisms, and especially the information on Chandler's settings are fascinating reads.<BR/><BR/>If you have the time, be sure to check out my essay! I'd love for you to read it and comment. Also, I don't know if it is something you'll like to this extent, but I am positive that our fine editor at Too Shy would love to let you use the essay for your site. I don't want to jump ahead, or anything, but I feel passionate about Chandler's work and would love to contribute to a website devoted to his legacy.<BR/><BR/>Here is the link to the essay: http://tooshytostop.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/raymond-chandlers-chokehold-on-crime-fiction/<BR/><BR/>Sincerely,<BR/><BR/>Peter RicciYoknapatawpha Kidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15316521976154649176noreply@blogger.com