![]() ![]() Chandler instead headed for Los Angeles, where, after fighting in the first World War, he worked in the oil industry. Banville rose to be literary editor of this newspaper, whereas Chandler abandoned his career as a poet and essayist when he realised his talent did not match his ambition. Like Chandler, he is a fine prose stylist, but his career developed very differently. There is a certain irony in the choice of Banville. , a new Marlowe mystery by John Banville, under his crime-writing pseudonym, Benjamin Black. ![]() Today Philip Marlowe is less famous than he once was, but the Chandler estate is hoping to breathe new life into the private eye with He showed that great writing could be as valuable as murder and death to a crime novelist. Raymond Chandler brought to the genre a literariness it had lacked – and wrote with a terse eloquence that mixed beauty and brutality. It was the novel that changed the way crime writing was seen. ![]()
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