The Big Sleep racketeering; Al Capone and Meyer Lansky were not role models. A figure like A. G. Geiger, the dirty-books racketeer in Raymond Chandler's "Big Sleep" (1939) who supplements his business activities as owner of a pornographic lending library in Hollywood by arranging sex orgies and blackmailing rich customers, is a fascinating but lurid exaggeration. However susceptible film personalities were to blackmail, it was not the métier of book dealers." The Big Sleep The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe. It has been adapted for film twice, in 1946
Double Indemnity (novel) the conclusion that one of them had to die to give the other some rest. And just like in the actual Snyder case, the modus operandi is poisoned wine. Double Indemnity (novel) Double Indemnity is a 1943 crime novel, written by American journalist-turned-novelist James M. Cain. It was first published in serial form in "Liberty" magazine in 1936 and then was one of "three long short tales" in the collection "Three of a Kind". The novel later served as the basis for the film of the same name in 1944, adapted for the screen by the novelist Raymond Chandler and