![]() ![]() He was a small towner, residing in a mofussil town 25 km north of Miami with a population of 30,000, who got obsessed with Chandler, his works and Chandler’s city of love, Los Angeles. He then went on to gorge on all of Raymond Chandler’s works. It was more happenstance that he first came to experience Chandler’s hardboiled artistry whence he chanced upon Robert Altman’s version of “The Long Goodbye” at a student movie night. ![]() ![]() It was not that Connelly read all Of Chandler’s works and took to crime writing both as a reporter or novelist. ![]() It came from Chandler’s own experiences whilst working as a screenwriter for Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity. It’s interesting because the book came out of sheer disdain for the way the writers were treated in Hollywood at the time. But the coloured light fooled you.” Not surprisingly, the 1949 classic featuring Philip Marlowe turns out to be Michael Connelly’s favourite piece of crime fiction. “It smelled stale and old like a living room that had been closed too long. “I smelled Los Angeles before I got to it,” Raymond Chandler said about his city of joy in The Little Sister. ![]()
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