Dorothy L. Sayers inadvertently raises the question of how much detail is too much in “The Five Red Herrings” (1931), her sixth Lord Peter Wimsey
The Raymond Chandler collection “The Simple Art of Murder” (1950) starts with his erudite titular essay from 1944. One of the most famous analyses ever
“The Prowler” (1981) is one of those “more entertaining than it is good” Eighties slashers. It starts with a rare sense of pedigree as we
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Seven novels showed Philip Marlowe as a serial bachelor who resists marriage like it’s the plague, so at first blush, that should have us scratching
If Dario Argento constructed beautiful horror castles, his mentor Mario Bava laid the foundations and dug out the basements first. As such, he’s a director
Hollywood’s loss becomes literature’s gain with “Playback” (1958), the last novel fully written by Raymond Chandler, who died in 1959. It seems odd for someone
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I’ve found a lot of proto-slasher giallo films are still engrossing today due to not only the cinema-history lesson but also the stories and craft.
Raymond Chandler makes what seems like a conscious reaction to “The Little Sister” (1949) – where everyone is mean and/or manipulative – in “The Long