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Down the mean streets

It was remarkable that Raymond Chandler produced any crime fiction at all, given his crippling, depressive alcoholism and his disregard for plot or mystery, suggests Sam Leith

  • A Mysterious Something in the Light: Raymond Chandler, A Life

    Tom Williams

    Aurum Press, pp. 400

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