The Annotated Big Sleep

by Raymond Chandler

  Gifford, Barry. Out of the Past: Adventures in Film Noir. Rev. ed. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001.

  Girouard, Mark. The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981.

  Goulart, Ron. Cheap Thrills: An Informal History of the Pulp Magazines. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1972.

  Green, Jonathon. Green’s Dictionary of Slang. https://greensdictofslang.com.

  Gross, Miriam, ed. The World of Raymond Chandler. New York: A&W Publishers, 1977.

  Haining, Peter. The Golden Age of Crime Fiction: The Authors, the Artists and Their Creations from 1920 to 1950. London: Prion, 2002.

  Hallas, Richard. You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up. 1938. Berkeley, CA: Black Lizard, 1986.

  Hammett, Dashiell. Crime Stories and Other Writings. New York: Library of America, 2001.

  ———. The Dain Curse. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929.

  ———. The Maltese Falcon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930.

  ———. Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett 1921–1960. New York: Counterpoint, 2001.

  ———. The Thin Man. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934.

  Henstell, Bruce. Sunshine and Wealth: Los Angeles in the Twenties and Thirties. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1984.

  Highsmith, Patricia. Introduction to The World of Raymond Chandler, edited by Miriam Gross, 1–6. New York: A&W Publishers, 1977.

  Himes, Chester. The Crazy Kill. 1959. New York: Vintage Books, 1989.

  ———. If He Hollers Let Him Go. 1945. Boston: Da Capo, 2002.

  Hiney, Tom. Raymond Chandler: A Biography. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1997.

  Hiney, Tom, and Frank MacShane. The Raymond Chandler Papers, Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909–1959. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 2000.

  Horsley, Lee. The Noir Thriller. 2nd ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

  Houseman, John. “Lost Fortnight.” In The World of Raymond Chandler, 53–66. Edited by Miriam Gross. New York: A&W Press, 1977.

  Hughes, Dorothy B. The Expendable Man. Rev. ed. New York: New York Review Books Classics, 2012.

  ———. In a Lonely Place. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947.

  Hughes, Geoffrey. An Encyclopedia of Swearing: The Social History of Oaths, Profanity, Foul Language, and Ethnic Slurs in the English-Speaking World. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2006.

  Hurewitz, Daniel. Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

  Hutchinson, Peter. Games Authors Play. London: Methuen, 1983.

  Huxley, Aldous. After Many a Summer. London: Chatto & Windus, 1939.

  Huysmans, Joris-Karl. Against Nature (À Rebours). Translated by Patrick McGuinness. New York: Penguin Classics, 2004.

  James, Clive. “The Country Behind the Hill.” In The World of Raymond Chandler, 115–26. Edited by Miriam Gross. New York: A&W Press, 1977.

  Jameson, Fredric. Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality. London: Verso, 2016.

  Kahn, Roger. The Boys of Summer. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

  Kammen, Michael. American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century. New York: Basic Books, 1999.

  Kawin, Bruce F. Faulkner and Film. New York: Ungar, 1977.

  ———. Selected Film Essays and Interviews. London: Anthem, 2013.

  Klein, Marcus. Easterns, Westerns, and Private Eyes: American Matters, 1870–1900. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.

  Krim, Seymour. Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim. Edited by Mark Cohen. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2010.

  Kuhn, Annette. The Power of the Image: Essays on Representation and Sexuality. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985.

  Legman, Gershon. Love & Death: A Study in Censorship. 1949. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1963.

  Lender, Mark Edward, and James Kirby Martin. Drinking in America: A History. Rev. ed. New York: Free Press, 1987.

  Lethem, Jonathan. “The Ecstasy of Influence.” In The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc., 93–120. New York: Vintage Books, 2011.

  ———. Gun, with Occasional Music. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1994.

  ———. Motherless Brooklyn. New York: Doubleday, 1999.

  Lid, R. W. “Philip Marlowe Speaking.” The Kenyon Review 31, no. 2 (1969): 153–78.

  Livia, Anna. “ ‘I Ought to Throw a Buick at You’: Fictional Representations of Butch/Femme Speech.” In Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self, 245–78. Edited by Kira Hall and Mary Bucholtz. New York: Routledge, 1995.

  Macdonald, Ross. Archer in Hollywood. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967.

  ———. Black Money. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966.

  ———. The Doomsters. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.

  ———. The Instant Enemy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968.

  ———. The Moving Target. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.

  ———. On Crime Writing. Santa Barbara, CA: Capra, 1973.

  MacShane, Frank. The Life of Raymond Chandler. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1976.

  Madden, David, ed. Tough Guy Writers of the Thirties. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1968.

  Mann, William J. Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910–1969. New York: Penguin Books, 2002.

  Margolies, Edward. Which Way Did He Go?: The Private Eye in Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes, and Ross Macdonald. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1982.

  Marling, William H. The American Roman Noir: Hammett, Cain, and Chandler. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998.

  ———. Raymond Chandler. Boston: Twayne, 1986.

  Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume 1. London: Penguin Classics, 1990.

  Mathews, Jack. “1939: It Was the Greatest Year in Hollywood History…” Los Angeles Times, January 1, 1989. Accessed July 20, 2015. http://articles.latimes.com/1989–01–01/entertainment/ca-223_1_greatest-year.

  Maurer, David W. The Big Con. 1940. London: Century, 1999.

  McBride, Joseph. Focus on Howard Hawks. New York: Prentice Hall, 1972.

  McCann, Sean. Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000.

  McCoy, Horace. I Should Have Stayed Home. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938.

  ———. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? New York: Simon & Schuster, 1935.

  McGilligan, Patrick. Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

  McWilliams, Carey. California: The Great Exception. Santa Barbara, CA: Peregrine Smith, 1976.

  ———. The Education of Carey McWilliams. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979.

  ———. Southern California: An Island on the Land. Salt Lake City, UT: Peregrine Smith, 1973.

  Mencken, H. L. The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States. 4th ed. 1936. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

  ———. The American Language: Supplement One. 1945. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962.

  ———. The American Language: Supplement Two. 1948. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962.

  Mencken, H. L., Raven I. McDavid, Jr., and David W. Maurer. The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States. The Fourth Edition and the Two Supplements, Abridged, with Annotations and New Material. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.

  Mitchum, Robert. Interview, L.A. Style, Anniversary Issue, June 1986.

  Moore, Charles, Peter Becker, and Regula Campbell. The City Observed: Los Angeles: A Guide to Its Architecture and Landscapes. Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, 1998.

  Morris, Willi
am, and Mary Morris. Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.

  Mosley, Walter. Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned. New York: Norton, 1997.

  ———. Devil in a Blue Dress. New York: W. W. Norton, 1990.

  ———. “Poisonville.” In A New Literary History of America, 598–602. Edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.

  Moss, Robert F., ed. Raymond Chandler: A Literary Reference. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003.

  Murphy, Bruce F. The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

  Neuberg, Victor E. The Popular Press Companion to Popular Literature. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1983.

  Nicholson, Geoff. The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism. New York: Riverhead Books, 2009.

  Nisbet, Jim. The Price of the Ticket. Tucson, AZ: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2003.

  Nolan, William F. The Black Mask Boys: Masters in the Hard-Boiled School of Detective Fiction. New York: Mysterious Press, 1985.

  O’Brien, Geoffrey. Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks and the Masters of Noir. Boston: Da Capo, 1997.

  Olmsted, Kathryn S. Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism. New York: New Press, 2015.

  Parker, Robert B. The Spenser novels. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974–2013.

  Parrish, Michael E. Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920–1941. New York: W. W. Norton, 1994.

  Partridge, Eric. A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. 1937. 7th ed. New York: Macmillan, 1970.

  Penzler, Otto, ed. The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories. New York: Vintage Books, 2010.

  ———. The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps. New York: Vintage Books, 2007.

  Pollock, Albin J. The Underworld Speaks: An Insight to Vices-Crimes-Corruption. San Francisco: Prevent Crime Bureau, 1935.

  Porter, Dennis. The Pursuit of Crime: Art and Ideology in Detective Fiction. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981.

  Pound, Ezra. Guide to Kulchur. 1938. New York: New Directions, 1968.

  Priess, Byron. Foreword to Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, vii–viii. Edited by Byron Priess. New York: Perigee, 1990.

  Rabinowitz, Paula. American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014.

  Rawson, Hugh. Wicked Words: A Treasury of Curses, Insults, Put-Downs, and Other Formerly Unprintable Terms from Anglo-Saxon Times to the Present. New York: Crown, 1989.

  Rayner, Richard. A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.’s Scandalous Coming of Age. New York: Anchor Books, 2010.

  Rintoul, William. Oildorado: Boom Times on the West Side. Fresno, CA: Valley Publishers, 1978.

  Robson, Eddie. Coen Brothers. Virgin Film Series. London: Virgin Books, 2003.

  Rourke, Constance. American Humor: A Study of the National Character. 1931. New York: New York Review Books Classics, 2004.

  Rzepka, Charles J. Detective Fiction. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2005.

  Sante, Luc. “Soul Inspector.” Bookforum, June/July/August 2007, http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/014_02/241.

  Saper, Clifford B. “Book Review: The Psychoses of Epilepsy.” The New England Journal of Medicine 325, no. 15 (October 1991): 1112. Accessed August 27, 2015. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199110103251521.

  The Saturday Review. “The Criminal Record: The Saturday Review’s Guide to Detective Fiction. Me, Detective, by Leslie T. White.” The Saturday Review, August 29, 1936, 16–17.

  Schatz, Thomas. Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

  Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. Robert Kennedy and His Times. New York: Mariner Books, 2012.

  Schulberg, Budd. The Four Seasons of Success. New York: Doubleday, 1972.

  Server, Lee. Danger Is My Business: An Illustrated History of the Fabulous Pulp Magazines: 1896–1953. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993.

  Sikov, Ed. On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder. New York: Hyperion, 1998.

  Silver, Alain, Elizabeth Ward, James Ursini, and Robert Porfirio, eds. Film Noir: The Encyclopedia. 4th ed. New York: Overlook/Duckworth, 2010.

  Simenon, Georges. The Man Who Watched Trains Go By. Translated by Marc Romano. 1938. New York: New York Review Books Classics, 2005.

  ———. The Yellow Dog. Translated by Linda Asher. 1931. New York: Penguin Books, 1936.

  Sinclair, Upton. Oil! New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1926.

  Sipiora, Phillip, and James S. Baumlin, eds. Rhetoric and Kairos: Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.

  Skenazy, Paul. The New Wild West: The Urban Mysteries of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Boise, ID: Boise State University Press, 1982.

  Sloper, Don. Los Angeles’s Chester Place. Images of America Series. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2006.

  Smith, Cornelius C., Jr. A Southwestern Vocabulary: The Words They Used. Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark, 1984.

  Smith, Erin A. Hard-Boiled: Working Class Readers and Pulp Magazines. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000.

  Smith, Gavin D. A to Z of Whisky. Glasgow: Neil Wilson, 1997.

  Speir, Jerry. Raymond Chandler. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1981.

  Sperber, A. M., and Eric Lax. Bogart. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.

  Spillane, Mickey. The Big Kill. New York: Signet, 1951.

  ———. The Killing Man. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1989.

  Starr, Kevin. The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

  ———. Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

  ———. Material Dreams: Southern California Through the Twenties. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.

  Stirling, Jeannette. Representing Epilepsy: Myth and Matter. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010.

  Thomson, David. The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

  ———. “Have You Seen…?”: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

  ———. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film. Expanded ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.

  Thorpe, Edward. Chandlertown: The Los Angeles of Philip Marlowe. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984.

  Thurber, James. My Life and Hard Times. 1933. New York: Bantam, 1947.

  Toone, B. K. “The Psychoses of Epilepsy.” Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry 69 (2000): 1–4.

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  Van Dine, S. S. “Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories.” ThrillingDetective.com. Accessed August 30, 2015. http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/triv288.html.

  Van Dover, J. K. The Critical Response to Raymond Chandler. Critical Responses in Arts and Letters. New York: Greenwood, 1995.

  Veblen, Thorsten. The Theory of the Leisure Class. 1899. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

  Wanamaker, Mark, and Robert W. Nudelman. Early Hollywood. Images of America Series. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2007.

  Ward, Elizabeth, and Alain Silver. Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles. Woodstock, NY: Overlook, 1987.

  Wells, H. G. “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid.” In The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells, 9–15. London: Phoenix, 1998.

  West, Nathanael. The Day of the Locust. New York: Random House, 1939.

  White, Leslie. Me, Detective. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1936.

  Widdicombe, To
by. A Reader’s Guide to Raymond Chandler. New York: Greenwood, 2001.

  Williams, Tom. A Mysterious Something in the Light: Raymond Chandler: A Life. London: Aurum Press Ltd, 2012.

  Wilson, Edmund. The American Earthquake: A Documentary of the Twenties and Thirties (A Documentary of the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, and the New Deal). Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958.

  ———. The Boys in the Back Room: Notes on California Novelists. Withum, UK: Colt, 1941.

  ———. The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties. New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952.

  Wilson, R. Rawdon. In Palamedes’ Shadow: Explorations in Play, Game, and Narrative Theory. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990.

  Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. 1929. Orlando, FL: Harvest, 1989.

  Workers of the Writers Program of the Work Projects Administration in Southern California. Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and Its Environs. New York: Hastings House, 1941.

  Permissions Acknowledgments

  Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

  The Estate of Raymond Chandler: The High Window (1942), The Little Sister (1949), “The Curtain” from Trouble Is My Business (1950), The Long Goodbye (1953), and Killer in the Rain (1964) by Raymond Chandler. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Raymond Chandler.

  Nan A. Talese, an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC: “In Love with Raymond Chandler” from Good Bones and Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood, copyright © 1983, 1992, 1994 by O. W. Toad Ltd. Reprinted by permission of Nan A. Talese, an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

  Penguin Books Ltd.: Front cover of The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, originally published in Great Britain by Penguin Books, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2011. Reprinted by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.

  Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.: Book cover of The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, originally published in the United States by Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, in 1950. Reprinted by permission of Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.