The Telegraph posts an excellent review of and introduction to the great writer of “hard boiled” detective fiction,” Raymond Chandler

When Raymond Chandler began to write for pulp magazines in the Thirties, he planned from the first to smuggle something like literature into them.

Most of these magazines hooked their readers with a mixture of sex and violence – “they have juxtaposed the steely automatic and the frilly panty and found that it pays off”, wrote S J Perelman. But Chandler wanted to do more than titillate: he had designs on his audience’s subconscious. He planned to sneak into his stories a quality which readers “would not shy off from, perhaps not even know was there … but which would somehow distill through their minds and leave an afterglow.”

Read the rest: Raymond Chandler’s novels under the magnifying glass – Telegraph.

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