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How Raymond Chandler Took Down Sherlock Holmes
How Raymond Chandler Took Down Sherlock Holmes
By Benjamin Welton
July 23, 2014

In celebration of Chandler’s birthday, we look back on “The Simple Art of Murder,” his seminal essay which broke the British stranglehold on detective fiction.

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