"The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved," by Janet
Freeman.

There are already two bios of Raymond Chandler, the great seminal
detective writer and inventer of Philip Marlowe, P.I., for whom maybe
Jim Rockford, the also great P.I. who is a new breed, hip and looser,
is something of an inevitable prodigal son out of our relentlessly
changing culture.

Freeman's is not so much a bio as a dramatization about Chandler and
his much older wife and their restless life in the LA of the 20's and
30's--they moved to different houses in that area a couple of...