Judith Freeman
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She is and has always been my favourite female character in Chandler’s entire oeuvre: Anne Riordan. She’s cool, intelligent, pretty and autonomous. Speir calls her “one of Chandler’s strongest, most independent, most likeable female characters.” (p. 113). In his article “Anne Riordan: Raymond Chandler’s Forgotten Heroine”, David Madden goes so far as to call her
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As early as in 1949 the critic Gershon Legman claimed in Love and Death: A Study in Censorship: “Chandler’s Marlowe is clearly a homosexual – a butterfly, as the Chinese say, dreaming that he is man” (quoted in Mason p. 97). To Michael Mason The Long Goodbye is “more emphatically, even overtly a novel of homosexual feeling than
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Margaret Atwood (©Alasdair McLellan) Simone Buchholz (©Gerald von Foris) Judith Freeman (©Anthony Hernandez) to be continued
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Adrian Wooton of the Guardian is right to point out that it is thanks to American writer Mark Coggins, tipped off by John Billheimer, and French journalist Olivier Eyquem that we know that Chandler has a tiny cameo in Billy Wilder’s 1944 movie Double Indemnity. It’s just unmistakeably him. I’d lay money on it,’ says
Raymond Chandler Dead men are heavier than broken hearts 