Der große Regisseur James Gray ist überzeugt, dass Hollywood ohne europäische Emigranten nicht denkbar wäre – es gebe sogar nur einen „einzigen wirklichen Amerikaner“.

Viele männliche Autoren sind daran gescheitert, einen Roman mit dem legendären Detektiv Philip Marlowe zu schreiben, der es mit dem Werk seines Erfinders aufnehmen kann. Die Schottin Denise Mina zeigt...

"Lebwohl, mein Liebling" von Raymond Chandler kann endlich wiederentdeckt werden.

These haunting lines of dialogue capture the cynical realism and moral ambiguity that define the genre’s darkest corners.

This month’s picks include a hunt for the world’s ‘most successful serial killer’, a pulpy police procedural and a tale of academic skulduggery

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She is and has always been my favourite female character in Chandler’s entire oeuvre: Anne Riordan. She’s cool, intelligent, pretty and autonomous. Speir calls her “one of Chandler’s strongest, mos…

Charles Laughton's "The Night of the Hunter” (1955) is one of the greatest of all American films, but has never received the attention it deserves because of

As early as in 1949 the critic Gershon Legman claimed in Love and Death: A Study in Censorship: “Chandler’s Marlowe is clearly a homosexual – a butterfly, as the Chinese say, dreaming that he …

Plus: Scroll down to find out who is putting a he.licopter storage facility in their south London garden, and a mysterious water contamination at the V&A.