Raymond Chandler is "The Big Sleep" (1946), by Howard Hawks, with Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe. William Faulkner was a co-writer of the screenplay. Chandler's few screenwriting efforts and the cinematic adaptation of his novels proved stylistically and thematically influential on the American "film noir" genre. Notable for its revised take on both the Marlowe character, transplanting the novel to the 1970s, is Robert Altman's 1973 neo-noir adaptation of "The Long Goodbye". Chandler was also a perceptive critic of detective fiction; his essay "The Simple Art of Murder" is the canonical essay in the field. Raymond Chandler Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23,
The Crime (novel) The Crime (novel) The Crime () is a 1935 novel by the French writer Georges Bernanos. It has also been published as A Crime. The novel is a detective story that was written for commercial prospects. The book was published by Plon in 1935. An English translation by Anne Green was published in 1936 under the title "A Crime". It was republished in 1946 with the title changed to "The Crime". Kenneth D. Whitehead writes in the "Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy": "Although the book contains unmistakable Bernanosian themes and treatments, it is not one