![]() ![]() In the year before he died, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. All but Playback have been realized into motion pictures, some several times. ![]() In addition to his short stories, Chandler published just seven full novels during his lifetime (though an eighth in progress at his death was completed by Robert B. ![]() His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. In 1932, at age forty-four, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Depression. Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter. ![]()
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