The High Window

"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