SOURCE: A review of Raymond Chandler: Stories & Early Novels and Later Novels & Other Writings, in The American Spectator, Vol. 28, No. 11, November, 1995, pp. 78-9.

In the following review, Lyons favorably critiques the Library of America's two-volume edition of Chandler's collected writing.

The Library of America has just issued a two-volume edition of Raymond Chandler—pulp fiction on Olympus! When word came to Chandler in the Elysian Fields that he was to report for a meeting with Emerson and Melville, he must have felt, somewhat like his hero Philip Marlowe:

It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark blue clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved, and sober...