Apocalypse as a happy ending? Only in Los Angeles. It's an idea that's epicentral to the identity of the place.

Case in point: The Big Sleep, directed by Howard Hawks. When screenwriters William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, and Jules Furhman got confused while adapting the Raymond Chandler novel The Big Sleep ...

and that might have been where he stayed but for the gift of a Raymond Chandler book some years earlier. “A friend of mine was a huge Chandler fan, and he must have given me ‘The Big Sleep ...

The back-to-back scheduling made for a brutal schlep, but it was worth it: During my first week in New York, I saw, among other things, a group of Russian refugee children proclaiming their love for ...

“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead?” Raymond Chandler muses in the closing pages of “The Big Sleep,” one of the city’s foundational texts. “In a dirty sump or in a ...

Otto Preminger's 1944 film noir Laura, starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews, is an iconic, bold entry for the genre.

Case in point: The Big Sleep, directed by Howard Hawks. When screenwriters William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, and Jules Furhman got confused while adapting the Raymond Chandler novel The Big Sleep, ...

More than three decades on, a botched attempt to rehabilitate Jackson’s reputation in a big-budget biopic depicting ... Evan’s brother, Raymond Chandler, wrote All That Glitters: The Crime ...

For more than a century, detective fiction has captivated readers from worldwide with its intricate puzzles, thrilling chases ...