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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