Chapter Further Reading of The Big Sleep - Study Guide by Raymond Chandler

Further Reading

The eight short stories that Chandler 'cannibalized' for his novels (including Killer in the Rain, The Curtain, and Mandarin's Jade) can be found in the Penguin/Hamish Hamilton collection Killer in the Rain.

John Sutherland's ideas as to who killed Owen Taylor are in Where was Rebecca Shot? (1998), his examination of 'Puzzles, curiosities & conundrums in modern fiction.'

There are a variety of biographies on Raymond Chandler. For example The Life of Raymond Chandler by Frank McShane (1976), Raymond Chandler by Tom Hiney, and Raymond Chandler in Hollywood by Al Clark (1982, revised 1998)