Quakers
“Qualified Farewell, A” (Chandler)
Quest, Orfamay (char.), 3.1, 7.1, 7.2
Randall, Carl (char.), 4.1, 7.1
Reavis, Lieut. (char.)
“Red Wind” (Chandler), fm1.1, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2
Regan, Vivian (char.), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
Riordan, Anne (char.), 4.1, 7.1, 7.2
RKO, fm1.1, 6.1
Robinson, Edward G., 6.1
Roman Catholics
Royal Air Force, Chandler in, loi.1, 1.1, 1.2
Russell, Leonard
Saint, The (film series)
Saki (H. H. Munro)
Sam Spade, 3.1, 5.1
Sanders, George
Sanders, Sydney
San Diego, Calif., Mount Hope Cemetery in
Sandoe, James, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2
Santa Ana winds
Santa Monica, Calif., fm1.1, 5.1, 5.2
see also “Bay City”
Saturday Evening Post
Schwab’s Pharmacy, 6.1
Scripps Clinic
Shakespeare, William, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
Shamey, Mrs. (char.)
Shanghai Gesture (film)
Shayne, Michael (char.)
Simple Art of Murder, The (Chandler), 8.1
“Simple Art of Murder, The” (Chandler), fm1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
slang
“Smart-Aleck Kill” (Chandler), loi.1, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1, 8.2
smoking, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
“Spanish Blood” (Chandler), loi.1, 4.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Spencer, Howard (char.)
Spender, Natasha, 9.1, 9.2
Spender, Stephen, 9.1
Stanwyck, Barbara, 6.1
Sternwood, Carmen (char.), 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Sternwood, General (char.), 3.1, 8.1
Sternwood Mansion, 3.1
Stinson, Herbert, 2.1
Stoppard, Tom
Stout, Rex, itr.1, 8.1
Strangers on a Train (film), fm1.1, 6.1, 6.2
Swanson, H. N. “Swanie,” 6.1, 6.2
Taki (Chandler cat), 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
Taylor, Eric, 2.1
This Gun for Hire (film), 6.1
Thornton, Ernest, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Time
Time to Kill (film), fm1.1, 6.1
To Have and Have Not (film)
Totter, Audrey, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1
Trevor, Claire, 6.1, 7.1
“Trouble Is My Business” (Chandler), fm1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
“Try the Girl” (Chandler), loi.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2
Turner, Lana, 6.1
“Twelve Notes on the Mystery Story” (Chandler)
20th Century-Fox, fm1.1, 6.1, 6.2
Tyndale, Jessica, 3.1, 5.1, 8.1, 9.1
Universal Pictures
Van Pallandt, Nina, 7.1
Vermilyea, Miss (char.)
Vickers, Martha, 7.1
Volstead Act (1920), 4.1
von Sternberg, Josef
Wade, Eileen (char.), 7.1, 7.2, 9.1
Wade, Roger (char.), 2.1, 3.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1
Chandler’s identification with, 8.1, 9.1
Walker, Robert, 6.1
Wallace, Irving, 8.1, 8.2
Warner Bros., fm1.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6
War of the Worlds, The (radio drama), 6.1
Warren, Dale, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 8.1
Wax, John (char.)
Webber, Capt. (char.)
Weeks, Edward, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1
Weld, Mavis (char.), 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
Welles, Orson, 6.1
Westminster Gazette, loi.1, 1.1
Whitestone, Sgt. (char.)
Wilde, Taggart (char.)
Winslow, General (char.)
Wodehouse, P. G.
“Woman’s Way, A” (Chandler)
World War I, Chandler and, loi.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
World War II, 5.1, 6.1
“Writers in Hollywood” (Chandler), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
writing, loi.1, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
animal imagery in
architecture in
education and, 8.1, 8.2
emptiness and
fame and
literature and, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
magic and, 8.1, 8.2
mystery story form and
reading and, 8.1, 8.2
routine and discipline in
similes and comparisons in, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
slang in
sound in, 8.1, 8.2
style in
time and
wisecracks in, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1