Raymond Chandler Quotes
But nothing seems to do any good.
Chandler, Raymond. Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler. Edited by Frank MacShane, Columbia University Press, 1981, p. 401.
The coalescing of Public Opinion against slavery in the North was punctuated by the election of Abraham Lincoln in the eyes of the supporters of slavery left them with no where to turn within the Union. Secession followed.
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime (an eighth, in progress at the time of his death, was completed by Robert B. Parker). All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once. In the year before his death, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America.
