Raymond Chandler Raymond Chandler Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in "Black Mask," a popular pulp magazine. His first novel, "The Big Sleep", was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime (an eighth, in progress at the time of his death, was completed by Robert B.
The Last Days of American Crime The Last Days of American Crime The Last Days of American Crime is an upcoming American action crime thriller film directed by Olivier Megaton from a screenplay written by Karl Gajdusek. It stars Edgar Ramirez, Anna Brewster, Michael Pitt, and Sharlto Copley and is based on Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini’s 2009 graphic novel of the same name. On July 27, 2018, it was announced that Edgar Ramirez would star as a career criminal Graham Bricke in the crime thriller film adaptation of the comic book "The Last Days of American Crime" by Rick Remender, which would be directed by