The physical setting, usually urban, can be spare, maybe a bit beat-up, something out of a Raymond Chandler novel.
He's now winning rave reviews from critics and fans and drawing comparisons to some noir legends like Raymond Chandler.
Her heroine, Eve Diamond, prowls an updated version of the city Raymond Chandler made famous in his hard-boiled mysteries.
"I wanted to do a female Raymond Chandler a 21st-century Raymond Chandler, " Hamilton tells NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates.
This set's most resonant film is "The Blue Dahlia" (1946), Raymond Chandler's only original screenplay and an Oscar-nominated one at that.
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Ms. Lambert, however, goes a little overboard with her film-noir, tough-gal voice "The Futures" reads like the history of commodities as told by Raymond Chandler.
This rule was inspired by the habits of writer Raymond Chandler.
Mystery aficionados compare his prose to Ross Macdonald's and Raymond Chandler's.
Auden, who pointed the mystery writer Raymond Chandler canonward.
Ms. PROSE: I mean I have a chapter on sentences in which I quote Raymond Chandler, and it was just hard not to quote Raymond Chandler all the way through the chapter.
In the past, there were a couple of magazines I worked on, and I would always try to figure out a way to do a special issue that would be their Raymond Chandler-driven or their mystery-driven issue.
Less satisfying is his account of California's cultural progress in the 19th and 20th centuries: does he really need to invoke so many long-forgotten writers to accompany such names as Jack London, Frank Norris, Mark Twain or Raymond Chandler?
Even well after the trade, D'Antoni often spoke fondly of the players the team gave up role players like Danilo Gallinari, Wilson Chandler and Raymond Felton among them.
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The package it took to get him was more than Walsh would've liked Danilo Gallinari, Wilson Chandler, Raymond Felton and Timofey Mozgov were four of their top six players but a necessary one for an elite player in his prime.
The Knicks matched them with a Tyson Chandler dunk and a Raymond Felton triple, but the teams took divergent paths from there.
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Wednesday's starters Raymond Felton, Iman Shumpert, Tyson Chandler and little-used players Kurt Thomas and James White comprised the Knicks' 16th different starting lineup this season.
In a sequence that really said it all, point guard Raymond Felton found a wide-open Tyson Chandler for an alley-oop, but Chandler somehow missed the dunk, then fumbled a futile effort at a put back.
In the eight games they have spent on the floor together, Shumpert, Raymond Felton, Jason Kidd, Carmelo Anthony and Tyson Chandler have been outscored by an average of 10.2 points per 48 minutes.
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