This biography is a good thriller - Daily TelegraphSympathetic and gripping...After reading this fine biography, I could hardly wait to take yet another trip down those mean streets with the greatest private detective of them all - Charles Spencer, Sunday TelegraphCarefully researched , enjoyable and enlightening...This is a book that should be read by everyone who admires fiction which has an individual vo ...Täielik kirjeldus
This biography is a good thriller - Daily TelegraphSympathetic and gripping...After reading this fine biography, I could hardly wait to take yet another trip down those mean streets with the greatest private detective of them all - Charles Spencer, Sunday TelegraphCarefully researched , enjoyable and enlightening...This is a book that should be read by everyone who admires fiction which has an individual voice, shines a torch into dark corners of the world and entertains the audience John Mortimer, Mail on SundayTom Hiney's biography does what any literary biography should do. It sends you back to the work - John Harvey, IndependentNo writer of similar influence has gone so long without a definitive biography...a smooth-reading, old fashioned literary biography with new fashioned insight - San Francisco ChronicleReading this refreshing book, even for anyone not already an addict of Chandler novels...you end up might glad the man lived - Frances Fyfield, ExpressCover Illustration: Mark Thomas