tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16749171.post4537085404028310225..comments2024-03-28T06:41:02.100-07:00Comments on The Rap Sheet: Speaking of Raymond ChandlerJ. Kingston Piercehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17073921191624535912noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16749171.post-79957245566308897862012-08-25T08:37:48.102-07:002012-08-25T08:37:48.102-07:00I completely agree with you that Chandler's le...I completely agree with you that Chandler's letters are endlessly fascinating. I began with Raymond Chandler Speaking but that was just a taste that led to the more satisfying Selected Letters edited by MacShane and the later Raymond Chandler Papers edited by Hiney and MacShane. The promise of more Chandler letters is reason enough to order your bio but sounds like there are plenty of other rewards.<br /><br />I appreciated MacShane's biography (and like his other work such as his O'Hara bio) but a first biography is rarely definitive. <br /><br />I have not read the Hiney bio. I must admit that his error in the Chandler Papers introduction of referring to the Mystery Writers of America as the American Mystery Writers' Association (sending a representative to the 1959 funeral) gives me a gulp and a few doubts. The book includes a 1959 letter from Chandler to the MWA's executive secretary which is correctly attributed. Perhaps it was a late change from a copy editor that caused the error.<br /><br />I look forward to reading your biography and am grateful for this interview in alerting me to it.<br /><br />Richard MooreRichard Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770090814220403413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16749171.post-18175934217726123952012-08-16T20:59:40.728-07:002012-08-16T20:59:40.728-07:00Tom, I left a message in your blog some time ago, ...Tom, I left a message in your blog some time ago, but we never connected. I wish we had, because I would have loved to have pressed you with my case.<br /><br />Here's part one of the Chandler piece on my blog. There's also a part two and part three.<br /><br />My book Masters of the Humdrum Mystery was published by McFarland a few months ago. I actually deal with Chandler quite a bit as the supposed antithesis to all British mystery. My contention is what Chandler really hated was the style of mystery associated with the Crime Queens.<br /><br />http://thepassingtramp.blogspot.com/2011/12/amateur-detective-just-wont-do-ramond.htmlThe Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16749171.post-315896111382357872012-08-15T10:02:01.274-07:002012-08-15T10:02:01.274-07:00Thanks for your comments guys and thanks to Mark a...Thanks for your comments guys and thanks to Mark and The Rap Sheet. <br /><br />@thepassingtramp - I'm afraid I don't think that Chandler was much of a plotter and I try to explain why in my book. I'd be really interested to see your thoughts though. Could you point me in the direction of your posts please? <br /><br />Cheers<br /><br />Tomtwilliams81https://www.blogger.com/profile/00956337042375383507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16749171.post-3850179286945315762012-08-15T03:15:10.829-07:002012-08-15T03:15:10.829-07:00Excellent interview. I can't wait to pick up t...Excellent interview. I can't wait to pick up the book.K. A. Laityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05983280397279864583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16749171.post-44744560553426971702012-08-14T22:53:39.043-07:002012-08-14T22:53:39.043-07:00I'll have to order this too now that it's ...I'll have to order this too now that it's out in UK. The earlier biographies (especially the last one) left room for a definitive one, in my view.<br /><br /><br />I thought the Craig Brown review in the Daily Mail was extremely unsatisfactory. For one thing he hardly talked about Williams' book!<br /><br />Another thing, Brown repeats the myth that Chandler was incapable of plotting (I do hope Williams challenges this, as I do in my blog pieces on Chandler).<br /><br />I'd like to know what happened to Chandler's father Maurice. It has always seems strange to em that he just disappears from history.<br /><br />Chandler's ancestors intermarried with mine back in Pennsylvania (they were all Quakers), so have always felt a special interest in this!The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.com