Burning Witches
Michael Rogin, 4 September 1997
Raymond Chandler: A Biography
by Tom Hiney.
Chatto, 310 pp., £16.99, May 1997,0 7011 6310 0 Show More
by Tom Hiney.
Chatto, 310 pp., £16.99, May 1997,
Raymond Chandler Speaking
edited by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker.
California, 288 pp., £10.95, May 1997,0 520 20835 8 Show More
edited by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker.
California, 288 pp., £10.95, May 1997,
“... have a restored print of The Big Sleep, half an hour longer than the original; and, most recently, Tom Hiney’s Raymond Chandler, billed as the first ‘authorised’ biography in twenty years. Chandler would be amused by his power to authorise a biography from beyond the grave, but probably not so amused by the promise of ‘new material’ about the ... ”