Film Noir 125
films see motion pictures
financial system 98
‘Finger Man’ 121
first love 234
first-person characters 94–5
First World War x, 12–13, 101–2, 127, 230–31
Fitzgerald, F. Scott 139–40, 235–6
Fleming, Ian 219, 220
Fontemara 127–8
Ford, Ford Madox 116
Fox, James M. 192, 193, 197
Fracasse, Jean 247, 258
Francis, J. 184
‘Free Verse’ 8–11
Gardner, Dorothy 217
Gardner, Erle Stanley 19, 29, 43, 53, 65–6, 233
Gartrell, Deirdre 230, 232, 235, 238, 243
Gault, William 208, 224, 233
Gibbs, Wolcott 58–9
Gilbert, Michael 214, 217, 224, 241, 242
Go-Between, The 197–8
Goldwyn, Samuel 69
Graham, Billy 234
grammar 36–7
Great Gatsby, The 235–6
Greene, Graham 89
Greene, Helga 215, 221, 231, 234, 235, 236, 238, 242, 243, 245, 246–7, 248, 251, 256, 258
Guinness, Maurice 250, 259
guns 99, 161–2
Halsey, Margaret 21, 23
Hamilton, Hamish ('Jamie') 50, 51,
, 60, 67, 75, 89, 97, 101, 105, 108, 112, 116, 118, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133, 134, 135, 138, 143, 146, 149, 153, 155, 166, 169, 170, 173, 176, 181, 187, 190, 191, 193, 197, 200, 203, 210, 239
Hammett, Dashiell 17, 33, 42–3, 56–7, 90
The Maltese Falcon 57, 59, 75
Hartley, Wesley 244
Harvard Summer School 189–90
Hawks, Howard 68, 95, 105
Haycroft, Howard 78
Heard, Gerard 225
Heart of the Matter, The 89
Hellman, Lillian 56
Hemingway, Ernest 33, 67, 137–8
heroes 3–5
High Wentryow, The 30, 31, 32, 34
Jews in 61–3
Hines, Mr 167
Hitchcock, Alfred 135–6, 141–2, 162, 166, 174–5
Hogan, Mrs Robert 75, 78
Hollywood
Communists 84–5
contracts 108
graveyard to talent 17
how to survive 172, 229–30
manner 73
people 43, 100
phony life 112
Warner brothers 118–20
writers and subconscious 122
see also motion pictures; screenwriting
homosexuality 120–21, 155–6, 227
honesty 136
Hoover, J. Edgar 192
horizontal writing 97
Hose, H. F. 149, 187, 191
Houghton Mifflin 50, 108
Houseman, John 126
Howard, James 232
I Know Where I'm Going 142–3
Ibberson, D. J. 157
Iceman Cometh, The 84, 86–7, 91
idealism 5–6, 7–8
‘Improvisation for Cissy’ 14
Inglis, Mr (a fan) 171
insomnia 151–2
inspiration 104
insurance inventory 166–7
Ireland 26, 49, 104, 131
Irish, William 32
Isherwood, Christopher 225
Jaguars 103
Jews 22, 23, 61–3
juvenile delinquents 191–2, 233
Keddie, James 136
Kefauver committee 154–5
Knopf, Blanche 20, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 31, 66
La Jolla 18–19, 22, 74, 103–4, 221, 224
La Jolla Hermosa Writers Club 88–9
Lady in the Lake, The 38
languages 194–5, 244
lawyers
fees 217
hanging 135
and organized crime 237–8
Leon, Jean de 226, 234
legal system
America 147
England 213
Levitt, Gene 141
limericks 246
literary criticism 58–9, 65, 81–2, 122, 127, 194
reviewers 256
literature 65–6
and detective fiction 40, 117, 139
ideas 122
importance 134–5
mechanical perfection 59–60, 76–7
past and present 149–50
rebellious thoughts on 243
significance 106–7
Little Sister, The 89, 109
London 212
Long Goodbye, The 166, 180–81, 182, 193
dust jacket 194
pruned material 183–4
Los Angeles 238
Loughner, Louise ix, 210, 212
love 117, 234
Lucania, Luciano (Lucky Luciano) xi, 250–55
Macdonald, John 109–10
Machell, Roger 186–7, 188, 194, 206, 241, 258
Maclnnes, Helen 156
McClung, Paul 173
mail 167–8
Maltese Falcon, The 57, 59, 75
manners 83–4
Marlowe, Philip x, 21
acting up 43
biography 157–62
Bogart as 67
character 241
as first-person character 94–5
honourable man 126–7
keeping alive 61
marriage 247, 259
maturity 171–2
playing God 68–9
social conscience 50–51
tied to for life 166
marriage 216–17, 228–9, 235, 259
maturity 171–2
Maugham, W. Somerset 129, 130–31, 145, 163, 184, 198
clichés 35, 44
letters to 145–6, 163
medical profession 173, 231–2, 238
melodrama 87, 102
Memoirs of Hecate County 74
Messick, Juanita 162, 189
MGM 57–8, 97
Mildred Pierce 40–41
Miller, Max 23, 24
Miss Lonelyhearts 113
Montgomery 241
Morgan, Neil 211, 216, 218
Morton, Charles 39, 41, 42, 43, 45, 49, 52– 53, 54, 56, 58, 69, 75, 76, 81, 82, 83,88,93, 103, 113, 115, 137, 140, 163, 164, 165, 175, 182
Moseley, Hardwick 194, 197, 205, 209, 221, 225
motion pictures
detective 80–81
English 180
magazines 180
moral content 126
public success 180
significance 182–3
technical advances 112
technique 174–5
see also Hollywood; screenwriting
Moving Target, The 109–10
mysteries see detective fiction
Mystery Writers of America 259
Neglected Authors 200–201
Neuman, E. Jack 246
New York 43, 220, 221
New York Times, The 194
New Yorker 58, 69
Nichols, Dudley 70
Nichols, Luther 256
1984 122
Nobel Prizes 118
novels see literature
Nuremberg Trials 101–2, 177–8
Of Mice and Men 17
Offord, Lenore 98
O'Neill, Eugene 84, 86–7, 91
organized crime 237–8, 256–7
Orwell, George 84, 122
Oscars 70–73, 107, 110
Paramount Studios 38, 39, 97
Partisan Review 81, 124
death 202–5
illness 170–71, 187
‘Improvisation for Cissy’ 14
Perelman, Syd 167, 168–9, 178
Phantom Lady 32
phonies 22, 51
photographs 25, 31, 126
Picture Post 147
Place in the Sun, A 179
plagiarism 50, 90–92
Playback 226, 255
playwritin
g 129
plot 78, 177
police 41–2, 96–7, 106, 107–8, 207
secret 192
politics 123
postal service 167–8
Priestley, J. B. 149, 153, 155–6, 163, 167
private eyes 187–8
proof readers 77, 105
psychiatry 171, 174
publicity 100, 105, 116, 155
publishers 115, 125, 163–4
Rancho Santa Fe 168, 178
Raymond Chandler's Mystery Magazine 116
realism 6–8
Realism and Fairyland 5–8
rejections 53
religion 131, 226, 234–5, 260
Remarkable Hero, The 3–5
reprints 66–7
retiring 250
reviewers 256
reviewing see literary criticism
Richard III 20–21
Russell, Leonard 202
San Francisco 96
Sanders, Sydney 14, 16, 51–2
Sandoe, James 39, 77, 79, 81, 83, 92, 95, 98, 101, 109, 114, 116, 117, 123, 124, 125, 128, 130, 132, 142, 147, 150, 154, 176, 182, 187, 197
Santa Monica 41–2
Sartre, Jean-Paul 135
Saturday Evening Post 21
science fiction 188
screenwriters 162, 138
screenwriting 45–9, 172–3, 235
Double Entryemnity 38, 39, 41
Strangers on a Train 135, 141–2, 166
Second World War 20, 26–7, 93–4, 177–8
secret police 192
Sequence 180
Série Noire 125
serious novels see literature
Shakespeare, William 113, 150
Shaw, Joseph 16, 17–18, 57, 92
Siegal, Sol 162
significance 65, 106–7, 182–3
Silone, Ignazio 127–8
Simple Art of Murder, The 42–3
sinus condition 32, 34
Sistrom, Joe 38
slang 36, 75, 105, 134
French 145
‘Smart Aleck Kill’ 121
snobbishness 198–9
socialism 153
Spender, J. A. 143
Spender, Natasha 210, 216, 218, 225, 246, 247
Spender, Stephen 112
split infinitives 77
Stark, Ray 94, 135
Stein, Gertrude 176
storytelling 184
Strangers on a Train 135, 141–2, 166
Streetcar Named Desire, A 179
style 78–9, 97–8, 157
English and American 35–8
suicide attempt 206–8
suspense 101, 135, 256
Swanson, H. N. 69, 188
teenagers 233
television 69, 140–41, 145–6, 173
Thieves Like Us 17
Third Degree 196
Times Literary Supplement, The 127
Tit-Bits 143–4
titles 75, 191
tone quality 37–8
Townend, William 177, 185
tragedies 79
Trench Raid 12–13
Tyndale, Jessica 214, 215, 222, 223, 225, 246, 248
Wallace, Edgar 66
Warner, Jack and Harry 118–20
Warren, Dale 50, 53, 57, 59, 74, 99. 100, 111, 114, 20, 123, 128, 131, 132, 133, 134, 139, 145, 155, 166, 167, 172, 174, 179, 199, 255
Weeks, Edward 77, 229
West, Nathaniel 113, 117
Westerns 205
Westminster Gazette 1, 143
whisky 197
Wilson, Angus 227
Wilson, Edmund 59, 74, 163, 184
Wodehouse, P. G. 177–8
Woman's Way, A 1–2
women 223, 227–8, 232
England 212, 218–19
New York 220
writers 128, 132, 190, 256
Woolrich, Cornell 33
Wright, Leroy 132, 260
writers
documentaries 197
egotism 98, 134, 239
not-quite writers 148
photographs 126
psychoneurotic 256
screenwriters 162
self-consciousness 123–4
and un-writers 165–6
unhappy domestic lives 228
women 128, 132, 190, 256
see also screenwriters
writing 78–9, 121, 226–7
action and inner reaction 99
dead language 133
detective fiction 87–8
dialogue 41
dictation 52–3
English and American style 35–8
explanation scenes 100–101
inspiration 104
learning 19–20, 75–6, 232–3
love stories 117
moral status 82–3
plays 129
pretentiousness 109–10
for radio 128
slang 105
storytelling 184
style 157
turning the corner 108–9, 218
working methods 243–4
see also screenwriting
‘Youth to Age’ 229
Zevion, B. D. 80