I'm with Richard. Chandler fans were not a force to be
reconned with in 1973. In fact, hadn't Chandler just recently
come back into print? I read my first Raymond Chandler in
late 1973 or early 1974, a movie tie-in copy of Long Goodbye.
I had read most or all of the other recent Avon paperbacks by
the time I saw the movie a year or two later at a college
repertory theater. And those books weren't that easy to find
at the time; I had to go to a used bookstoe that specialized
in mysteries for most of them. So Altman probably had far
more name recognition with moviegoers than Chandler in
1973.
Mark
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