In period garb, guides Richard Schave and Joan Renner (far left) lead tourists from the Barclay Hotel, where Raymond Chandler set an ice-pick murder in one of his Philip Marlowe novels.
In period garb, guides Richard Schave and Joan Renner (far left) lead tourists from the Barclay Hotel, where Raymond Chandler set an ice-pick murder in one of his Philip Marlowe novels.
> The source of course couldn’t be Chandler himself. L.A.’s literary legend, arguably the greatest crime novelist of all time, had died 50 years earlier.
Gotta love Chandler, tho’ the greatest crime novelist of all time he ain’t. That distinction goes to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, closely followed by Leslie Charteris. Chandler gets a close third.
In period garb, guides Richard Schave and Joan Renner (far left) lead tourists from the Barclay Hotel, where Raymond Chandler set an ice-pick murder in one of his Philip Marlowe novels