Creatures of Darkness
Subtitle: Raymond Chandler, Detective Fiction, and Film Noir
Edition: 2 Sub edition
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: April 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780813190426
Subjects: Films, cinema; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Plays & playwrights: from c 1900 -; Popular Culture - General; Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; American English; Performing Arts/Dance; USA; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Film & Video - General
First sentence: Raymond Chandler once observed that American writers of hard-boiled detective stories like himself had taken murder out of "the vicar's rose garden" and dropped it in the alley.