"Raymond Chandler is a master."
--- The New York Times
"[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered."
--- The New Yorker
"Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious."
--- Robert B. Parker, The New York Times Book Review
"Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye."
--- Los Angeles Times
"Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist."
--- The Boston Book Review