Thrilling Detective Non-Fiction (Index)

Essays, Reviews and Other Stuff TRIBUTES So Long, Jimbo: James Garner 1928-2014 by Kevin Burton Smith Remembering Rockford: James Garner 1928-2014 A Tribute by Craig McDonald Raymond Chandler Was An Asshole by Stephen Blackmoore Looking for Robert B. Parker: A Fond Farewell to the Man Who Saved P.I. Fiction by Cameron Hughes Dennis Lynds, 1924-2005 The Mystery Community …

Everybody Loves Raymond

Chandler, that is. This month, for no apparent reason beyond, perhaps, marking his 130 birthday today (July 23), two new books are being published. One, The Annotated Big Sleep (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $25.00), celebrates the past, placing the 1939 novel (which introduced us to Los Angles private eye Philip Marlowe) on a pedestal, and then douses …