Pickup on Noon Street Author:Raymond Chandler Raymond Chandler has been called "one of the most aware, articulate, and literarily gifted of American detctive novelists." He was a leadig exponent of the so-called "tought" school of crime fiction and his hero Philip Marlowe is the archetype of the hard-boiled, hard-hitting "private eye." His books have been published in twelve countries, dr... more »amatized ont he radio, and made into motion pictures.« less