Chandler and Hitch

Raymond Chandler's letter to Alfred Hitchcock.

Guardian: The Big Sleep – review

Humphrey Bogart's Philip Marlowe is tough without a gun and lethal with a wisecrack in this irresistible rerelease. Full review here.

Chess, Chandler, And Capablanca

It was night. I went home and put my old house clothes on and set the chessmen out and mixed a drink and played over another Capablanca. It went fifty-nine moves. Beautiful cold remorseless chess, almost creepy in its silent implacability.

When it was done I listened at the open window for a while and smelled the night. Then I carried my glass out to the kitchen and rinsed it and filled it with ice water and stood at the sink sipping it and looking at my face in the mirror.

"You and Capablanca'" I said.

-- From Raymond Chandler's, THE HIGH WINDOW (1942)

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Jose Raul Capablanca links:
Bio | The Capablanca chess games | Film footage and photos

A Raymond Chandler Evening

Part 2 | Part 3

Plus: Judith Freeman Uncovers the Mystery of Chandler's Life

Raymond Chandler: Literary genius is all about hard work

And not the best quality but here's Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians with "Raymond Chandler Evening," a terrific 80's song.