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Chandler's double identity
Adrian Wootton on a writer's secret cameo
Bit part ... Raymond Chandler (sitting) in cameo in Double Indemnity
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of legendary American crime scribe Raymond Chandler, whose seven completed novels, including The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely and The Long Goodbye profoundly changed crime fiction and crime movies. The success of his novels - The Big Sleep was first to be published in 1939 - led Chandler to try his hand at screen
Published on June 11, 2009 05:49