homosexuals and
Houghton Mifflin and
Houseman and, 2.1, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1
Howard and
Ibberson and
in Ireland, 1.1, 1.2
Karloff and
in La Jolla, fm1.1, fm1.2, fm1.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1
Lake and, 6.1, 7.1
language and, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
lawyers and
letter writing and, 9.1, 9.2
Los Angeles and, see Los Angeles, Calif.
Machell and, 3.1, 3.2, 9.1
Marlowe and, see Marlowe, Philip (char.)
marriage certificate of, 2.1
Maugham and, 2.1, 8.1
McDermid and
Messick and
money and, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1
in Monrovia
Morgan and
Morton and, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1, 9.2
Moseley and
mother and, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
Mrs. Hogan and, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Mutch and
Mystery Writers of America and
in Nebraska
in New York
obituary of
Offord and
oil industry and, loi.1, 1.1, 2.1
O’Neill and
Partridge and
personality of
on police and crime
religion and, 1.1, 1.2, 9.1
Roger Wade and
romances of, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6
Russell and
Sanders and
Sandoe and, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2
in Santa Monica, fm1.1, 5.1
sense of home as lacking in
Spender and, 9.1, 9.2
suicide attempt of
Swanson and, 6.1, 6.2
tax problems of
Tyndale and, 3.1, 5.1, 8.1, 9.1
Wallace and, 8.1, 8.2
Warren and, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 8.1
Weeks and, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1
Wilder and, fm1.1, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2
Wodehouse and
women and, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
World War I and, loi.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
World War II and
see also writing
chess, 3.1, 3.2
Chess, Muriel
Chicago, Ill.
Chiozza, Dolores (char.)
Christie, Dame Agatha, itr.1, 8.1, 8.2
Christy-French, Lieut. (char.)
cigarettes, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Civil Service, British, Chandler and
Clarendon, Henry (char.)
coffee, 3.1, 3.2
Conquest, Linda (char.), 6.1, 7.1
Conrad, Joseph
Continental Op (char.)
Conversations with Wilder (Crowe), 6.1, 6.2
cops, 4.1, 4.2
“Couple of Writers, A” (Chandler)
Coxe, George Harmon, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1
“Critical Notes” (Chandler)
“Curtain, The” (Chandler), loi.1, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Cypress Grove, Calif., 1.1
Dabney Oil Syndicate, loi.1, 2.1
Dalmas, John (char.), fm1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1
Dannay, Frederic
Davis, Bette, 6.1, 6.2
Davis, Merle (char.), 7.1, 7.2
Davis, Norbert, 2.1
Degarmo, Lieut. (char.)
de Leon, Jean, 8.1, 8.2
deMille, Cecil B.
Depression, Great, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1
Detective Fiction Weekly
Dickens, Charles
Dime Detective, loi.1, fm1.1, fm1.2, 2.1
Dionne Quintuplets, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Dmytryk, Edward
Donovan, Carol (char.)
Double Indemnity (Cain), fm1.1, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Double Indemnity (film), fm1.1, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Dravec, Carmen (char.)
Dulwich College, loi.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Dumas, Alexandre
Endicott, Sewell (char.)
England, Chandler and, loi.1, fm1.1, fm1.2, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1
“English Summer” (Chandler)
Evans, John (char.), 3.1, 3.2
Falcon Takes Over, The (film), fm1.1, 6.1
Famous Players-Lasky, 6.1
Farewell, My Lovely (Chandler), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 5.1, 7.1
cops in, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6
Hemingway and, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1
Los Angeles in, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6
Marlowe’s wit in, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
publication of
reviews of
women in, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
writing of, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9, 8.10
Farewell, My Lovely (film), 6.1, 7.1
Farr, Rhonda (char.)
Faulkner, William, 6.1
film industry, 5.1, 6.1
Chandler and, fm1.1, fm1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 8.1
Marlowe and, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8
“Finger Man” (Chandler), loi.1, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1, 8.2
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 2.1, 2.2
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 2.1
Fleming, Ian
Florian, Jessie (char.)
Fortnightly Intruder
Four Roses
“Free Verse” (Chandler)
Fromsett, Adrienne (char.), 7.1
Furthman, Jules
Gardner, Dorothy, 2.1, 8.1
Gardner, Erle Stanley, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2
Gartrell, Diedre
Geiger (char.), 2.1, 7.1
Germany, Chandler and, 1.1, 1.2
Gilbert, Michael, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1
Glass Key, The (film), 6.1
“Goldfish” (Chandler), loi.1, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1, 8.1
Goldwyn, Samuel
Gonzales, Dolores (char.), 2.1, 7.1
Granger, Farley, 6.1
Grant, Cary, 3.1, 6.1
Grayle, Mr. (char.)
Grayle, Velma (char.), 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
Greene, Helga, fm1.1, 2.1, 5.1, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Greer, Lieut. (char.)
Gregorius, Capt. (char.)
Gregory, Capt. (char.), 4.1, 4.2
Greystone Mansion (Beverly Hills, Calif.), 3.1
Guild, Nancy, 7.1
Guinness, Maurice, 3.1, 3.2
“Guns at Cyrano’s” (Chandler), loi.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2
Haines, Guy (char.)
Haines, Miriam (char.)
Hamilton, Hamish, fm1.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
Hamish Hamilton (publishing company), 3.1, 9.1
Hammett, Dashiell, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 6.1
Hartley, Wesley, 1.1, 2.1, 8.1
Harwood, Joyce (char.), 6.1
Hawks, Howard, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1
Hecht, Ben
Hemingway, Ernest, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1
“Hemingway” (char.), 2.1, 4.1
Henreid, Paul, 6.1, 6.2
Hersey, John, 2.1, 6.1
Higgins, George V.
High Sierra (film)
High Window, The (Chandler), fm1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 6.1
chess in
cops in, 4.1, 4.2
Hollywood in, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
Italian edition of, 9.1
Los Angeles in, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Marlowe’s loneliness in
Marlowe’s smoking in
Marlowe’s wit in, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
women in, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6
writing of, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9, 8.10
High Window, The (film), 7.1
Hitchcock, Alfred, fm1.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Hogan,
Mrs. Robert, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Hollywood, Calif., 5.1, 6.1, 6.2
Paramount’s Bronson Gate in, 6.1
Schwab’s Pharmacy in, 6.1
Walk of Fame in
see also Los Angeles, Calif.
“Hollywood and the Screen Writer” (Chandler)
Holmes, Sherlock (char.)
homosexuality
Houghton Mifflin, fm1.1, 8.1
Houseman, John, 2.1, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1
Howard, James
Huggins-Young coffee, 3.1, 3.2
Huntress, Harriet (char.)
Hurlburt, Pearl Eugénie Pascal, see Chandler, Cissy Pascal
Hutton, Betty
Ibberson, D. J.
Iceman Cometh, The (O’Neill)
“I’ll Be Waiting” (Chandler), fm1.1, 8.1
Ireland, Chandler in, 1.1, 1.2
Karloff, Boris (William Henry Pratt)
“Killer in the Rain” (Chandler), loi.1, 2.1, 3.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
“King in Yellow, The” (Chandler), fm1.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1
Knopf, Alfred, fm1.1, fm1.2, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Knopf, Blanche, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 5.1, 8.1
Ladd, Alan, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
“Lady in the Lake, The” (Chandler), 3.1, 8.1
Lady in the Lake, The (Chandler), fm1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 5.1, 5.2
cops in, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6
Los Angeles in
women in
writing of, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9
Lady in the Lake, The (film), 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
La Jolla, Calif., fm1.1, fm1.2, fm1.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1
Lake, Fawn (char.)
Lake, Veronica, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
Lennox, Terry (char.)
Little Sister, The (Chandler), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14, 3.15, 5.1, 9.1
cops in, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5
Hemingway and
Hollywood in, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6
Los Angeles in, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.10, 6.1
publication of
women in, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
writing of, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6
London, England, Chandler and, loi.1, fm1.1, fm1.2, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1
London Times
Long Goodbye, The (Chandler), 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 9.1, 9.2
chess in
cops in, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8
Hollywood in, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
Los Angeles in, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Marlowe’s changed character in, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Marlowe’s drinking in
Marlowe’s loneliness in, 3.1, 3.2
organized crime in, 4.1, 4.2
publication of
rich people in
Roger Wade in, 2.1, 3.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2
Serbo-Croatian edition of, 9.1
women in, 3.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
writing of, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8
Long Goodbye, The (film), 7.1
Loring, Linda (char.), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 7.1, 7.2
Los Angeles, Calif., loi.1, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 8.1
African Americans in
Ambassador Hotel in, 5.1
architecture of, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 8.1
Beverly Hills Hotel in, 5.1
Beverly Hills in, 5.1, 5.2
in The Big Sleep, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Brown Derby restaurant and, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Bunker Hill and, 5.1, 5.2
Cahuenga Building and, 5.1
Chandler and, loi.1, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 6.1, 8.1
City Hall in, 5.1
in Farewell, My Lovely, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6
film industry in, 5.1, 6.1
Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in, 5.1, 5.2
Hollywood Boulevard in, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1
Hollywood in, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1
Hotel Tremaine in
in The Little Sister, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.10, 6.1
in The Long Goodbye, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
neon lights in, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
oil industry and
organized crime in, 4.1, 5.1
population growth in
Richfield Building in, 5.1
Santa Ana winds in
smog in
Studio City in
Sunset Boulevard in, 5.1, 5.2
Van Nuys Hotel in
Ventura Boulevard in
Vine Street in, 5.1
Westwood in, 5.1
Wilshire Boulevard in, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
World War II and
Lozelle, “Blonde Agnes” (char.), 7.1, 7.2
Macdonald, Ross, 5.1, 5.2
Machell, Roger, 3.1, 3.2, 9.1
MacMurray, Fred, 6.1, 6.2
Mafia
see also organized crime
Mallory (char.), 3.1, 3.2
Malloy, Moose (char.), 5.1, 7.1
Malory, Thomas
Maltese Falcon, The (film), 6.1, 6.2
Maltese Falcon, The (Hammett)
“Mandarin’s Jade” (Chandler), loi.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6
Mansion House Hotel
“Man Who Liked Dogs, The” (Chandler), loi.1, 3.1, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Marlowe, Philip (char.), fm1.1, itr.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2
Anne Riordan and, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2
apartments of, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
art and
biography of
calendars and
cars and, 3.1, 3.2
Chandler’s creation of, fm1.1, 2.1
Chandler’s identification with, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2
changes in, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1
chess and, 3.1, 3.2
clichés and
cops and
drinking by, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
film industry and, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8
firearms and, 3.1, 3.2
food and, 3.1, 3.2
homosexuals and
Linda Loring and, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 7.1, 7.2
loneliness of
Los Angeles and, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4; see also Los Angeles, Calif.
marriage and
offices of, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Ohls as alter ego of
organized crime and, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
physical description of
pragmatism of
predecessors to, 3.1, 3.2
professional ethics of, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1
religion and, 9.1, 9.2
rich people and
smoking by, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
social conscience of
wit and wisecracks of, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1
women and, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2
on writing and storytelling, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Marr, Belle (char.)
Marriott, Lindsay (char.)
Mars, Eddie (char.), 3.1, 4.1, 7.1
Mars, Mona (char.), 7.1, 8.1
Marsh, Ngaio
Marshall, George
Matson, Helen (char.)
Maugham, W. Somerset, 2.1, 2.2, 8.1
Mayfield, Betty (char.)
McCoy, Horace, 2.1
McDermid, Finley
McKim, Tod (char.)
Menendez (char.)
Messick, Juanita
MGM, fm1.1, 6.1, 6.2
Millar, Kenneth (Ross Macdonald), 5.1, 5.2
Moffatt, Raymond T., 2.1
Monrovia, Calif.
Montgomery, Robert, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 6.2
Morgan, Neil
Morny, Mrs. (char.), 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Morte d’Arthur (Malory)
Morton, Charles, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1, 9.2
Moseley, Hardwick
Moss, Carl (char.)
Mother Goddam (char.)
Mount Hope Cemetery (San Diego, Calif.)
movie industry, see film industry
Munro, H. H. (Saki)
Murder, My Sweet (film), fm1.1, 6.1, 6.2
Murdock, Mrs. (char.)
Mutch, Margaret
Mystery Writers of America
Nabokov, Vladimir
Navy Department, U.S.
Nebraska, Chandler in
Neff, Walter (char.), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
“Nevada Gas” (Chandler), loi.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2
New York, N.Y.:
Chandler in
Cissy Pascal in, 2.1
New York Times
“No Crime in the Mountains” (Chandler), 3.1, 3.2, 7.1
Nolan, Lloyd
Now, Voyager (film), 6.1, 6.2
Nulty, Lieut. (char.)
Offord, Lenore
Ohls, Bernie (char.), 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2
oil industry, loi.1, 1.1, 2.1, 5.1
Old Forester, 3.1, 3.2
Old Taylor
O’Neill, Eugene, 2.1, 2.2
Oppenheimer, Jules (char.)
Oregon, University of
organized crime, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.1
Ormonde, Czenzi, 6.1, 6.2
“Oscar Night in Hollywood” (Chandler)
Pacific Palisades, Calif., 7.1
Paramount Studios, fm1.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9
Paris, France, Chandler in, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
Partridge, Eric
Patton, Jim (char.), 4.1
“Pearls Are a Nuisance” (Chandler), fm1.1, 8.1, 8.2
“Pencil, The” (Chandler), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1
Penn, William
Pennsylvania
Phyllis Dietrichson, 6.1, 6.2
“Pick-Up on Noon Street” (Chandler), 5.1, 5.2
Playback (Chandler), fm1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 6.1
cops in
Los Angeles in
Marlowe’s instincts in
Marlowe’s smoking in
Marlowe’s wit in, 3.1, 3.2
religion in
screenplay for
women in, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
writing and, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6
police, 4.1, 4.2
Poodle Springs (Chandler), 3.1, 4.1, 7.1
Potter, Harlan (char.), 5.1, 7.1
Powell, Dick, 6.1, 6.2
Pratt, William Henry (Boris Karloff)
Prendergast, Mrs. Philip Courtney (char.), 7.1, 7.2
Pride, Carol (char.), 7.1, 7.2
Prohibition, 1.1, 2.1
organized crime and, 4.1, 4.2
Proust, Marcel
pulp magazines, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1