Mr. Los Angeles: "Raymond Chandler & His World"
Virtual
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) was one of the greatest mystery writers that America ever produced. His eight classic novels and the six movies that followed brought the dark, disturbing underbelly of Los Angeles fully alive in a way that no other writer has been able to match. His most famous fictional detective, Philip Marlowe, refused to abandon his own moral code, even though he had taken enough beatings to understand how the game was really played. Nothing in Chandler’s early life suggested that he was destined to be a great writer. A failed oil company executive with a taste for alcohol, Chandler had not published anything of significance at the age of 44. Unlike his colleague and rival, Dash Hammett, Chandler had never been a detective. When Chandler decided to write, he ignored Hammett and James M. Cain and used the creator of Perry Mason, Erle Stanley Gardner, as his model and muse.
Central Senior Services invites you to join us for an intriguing Zoom presentation by Dr. Jennifer Matisoff, an authority on modern detective fiction who teaches at Arcadia University.
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