Chandlerish

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1. Resembling the work of author Raymond Chandler in style or theme

   Broadbent's smoky, sultry originals "The Long Goodbye" and "Lady In The Lake" uphold the album's Chandlerish spirit.

   1992 August 15, Billboard, volume 104, number 33, page 57

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   […] Polanski has been completing with the writer Robert Towne the script for his new movie, a Chandlerish detective story of the thirties, "Chinatown" […]

   1973, The New York Times biographical service, volume 4, New York Times & Arno Press, page 1518

   These include Miller and artist David Mazzucchelli’s Batman: Year One (19867) [sic] which covers Bruce Wayne’s (and Jim Gordon’s) first weeks on the streets, in a Chandlerish tale of crooked cops and a rotten city […]

   1997 The BFI companion to crime, Volume 1997, Part 2, University of California Press, p44