RARA-AVIS: Review of Raymond Chandler Papers - worth reading

From: crimefactory@mBox.com.au
Date: 26 Feb 2001

>
> http://www.theage.com.au/books/2001/02/19/FFXNIM51DJC.html
>
> Oustanding review of the book - only takes about 5 minutes
> to read.
> <<<<<<
>
> I'd hardly describe something as an outstanding review when it
> starts like this:
>
> "The first thing to ask about Raymond Chandler is why his name
> lives on when those of best-selling contemporaries such as Erle
> Stanley Gardner and James M. Cain are forgotten?"
>
> All the reviewer had to do was stop in any bookstore. Gardner and
> Cain are still in print, and not forgotten in the least. Shoddy
> research up front always turns me off. Now Charles Williams,
> Norbert Davis, Leigh Brackett -- folks like them really have been
> forgotten. Damn shame too.
>
> BobT
> >

These authors are not readily available in Australia which is where the review was published.

Dave Honeybone
 

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