Raymond Chandler bibliography drinking. He began writing crime stories for the pulp magazines "Black Mask", "Detective Fiction Weekly", "The Fortnightly Intruder" and "Dime Detective". The stories were subsequently brought together in collected editions. In 1939, at the behest of the publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Sr., Chandler wrote his first novel, "The Big Sleep", for which he used parts of his short stories "Killer in the Rain" (1935) and "The Curtain" (1936). He went on to write seven novels, many of which featured the character Philip Marlowe. In 1944 Chandler was asked by Paramount Pictures to write the script for the film "Double Indemnity"
The Blue Dahlia postwar boom and decadence. Chandler was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. "The Blue Dahlia" was dramatized as a half-hour radio play on the April 21, 1949 broadcast of "The Screen Guild Theater", starring Lake and Ladd in their original film roles. The movie was also adapted into a stage play in 1989. Houseman's narrative of the film's creation was dramatized for BBC Radio by Ray Connolly in 2009. The Blue Dahlia The Blue Dahlia is a 1946 American crime film and film noir, directed by George Marshall based on an original screenplay by Raymond Chandler. The