"Raymond Chandler is a master." –
The New York Times
"[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered." –
The New Yorker "Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious." –Robert B. Parker,
The New York Times Book Review "Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye." –
Los Angeles Times
"Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist." –
The Boston Book Review
"Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandler's prose. . . . He wrote like an angel." –
Literary Review
"[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision." –Joyce Carol Oates,
The New York Review of Books "Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence." –Ross Macdonald
"Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude." –Erle Stanley Gardner
"Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since." –Paul Auster
"[Chandler]'s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world that's like ours, but isn't. " –Carolyn See
