RARA-AVIS: A Chandler Connection

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• From: billha@ionet.net (Bill Hagen)
• Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 23:53:31 -0600 (CST)
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On 3/25 Gary Niebuhr wrote:

>I just re-read this book [The Long Goodbye] recently [and] was struck how
>each time I read this book I see new things.  Has anyone ever confirmed if
>Chandler's own feeble attempted suicide had anything to do with the
>alcoholic author in this book?  I have read most of the biographies but I
>can't remember anyone connecting the two events.  Does anyone else?

I haven't read all the commentary on The Long Goodbye, but apparently it is
a commonplace that Wade (the alcoholic author), Terry Lennox, and Marlow
are all connected to Chandler.  It's in H.R.F. Keating's short write-up in
Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books (1987); it's also in Peter Wolfe's
Something More Than Night: The Case of Raymond Chandler (1985).

Bill Hagen
<billha@ionet.net>


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