Raymond Chandler speaking
By: edited by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker ; introduction by Paul Skenazy.
Contributors: Gardiner, Dorothy, 1894-; Walker, Kathrine Sorley.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Chandler, Raymond, -- 1888-1959 -- Interviews; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Interviews; Detective and mystery stories -- Authorship
Description: Tough-minded and typically idiosyncratic, here is Chandler on Chandler, the mystery novel, writing, Hollywood, TV, publishing, cats, and famous crimes. This skillfully edited selection of letters, articles, and notes also includes the short story "A Couple of Writers" and the first chapters of Chandler's last Philip Marlowe novel, The Poodle Springs Story, left unfinished at his death. Paul Skenazy has provided a new introduction for this edition as well as a new selected bibliography. --Publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1977. With new introd.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-267) and index.