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The Silver Pigs (1989) by Lindsey Davis
Episode 35
Josh and Scott kick off a new series of crime story explorations with a trip to Lindsey Davis's Ancient Rome, guided by Imperial Informant, Marcus Di…
5 years, 5 months ago
Ranking Raymond Chandler
Episode 34
For their series finale on the Philip Marlowe novels, Scott and Josh reflect on their reading of the canonical sweep and rank the stories and feature…
5 years, 6 months ago
Playback (1958)
Episode 33
Chandler's final complete Marlowe novel was written at a time of deteriorating health and tumultuous circumstances for the author. Not surprisingly, …
5 years, 6 months ago
The Long Goodbye (1953)
Episode 32
1953 saw the publication of Raymond Chandler's sixth Philip Marlowe novel, "The Long Goodbye". Chandler himself regarded it as his best work and many…
5 years, 7 months ago
The Confidential Agent (1939)
Episode 31
Driven by amphetamine, Graham Greene knocked out this thriller in only 6 weeks of 1939 in a rented room of a Bloomsbury flat. He wrote fervently as p…
5 years, 9 months ago
The Little Sister (1949)
Episode 30
After a five-year hiatus, Raymond Chandler returns to the world of Philip Marlowe with "The Little Sister". His small-town client brings big-city tro…
5 years, 9 months ago
The Lady In The Lake (1943)
Episode 29
For his fourth novel, Raymond Chandler sends detective Philip Marlowe away from the steamy tumult of Los Angeles and up into the fresh mountain air i…
5 years, 11 months ago
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Episode 28
Commenting on the gigantic success of his company, Walt Disney once famously said "...it was all started by a mouse". Years later, it would again be …
5 years, 11 months ago
Enola Holmes (2020)
Episode 27
While it may snuff the hopes of Sherlockians in search of a faithful adaptation of Conan Doyle's detective, there's still a lot to enjoy about Netfli…
6 years ago
The High Window (1942)
Episode 26
Raymond Chandler's third novel offers readers a different look at detective Philip Marlowe than afforded in his first two outings while expanding on …
6 years ago