1.   Chandler remains the greatest exponent of detective fiction.

2.   Chandler turned to detective fiction after being fired from his job at an oil company because of his drinking problem.

3.   He approached detective fiction as a craft that could be learned through careful, methodical study.

4.   He was extremely prolific, writing Novels, short stories, detective fiction set in Harlem.

5.   Paraphrase It is among the most striking features of detective fiction, Patricia Craig points out, that all kinds of topical ideologies are easily accommodated within it.

6.   As his money ran out, he worked for The New Masses and wrote pulp detective fiction on the side.

7.   But much has changed, in detective fiction and the world it inhabits.

8.   Chandler shares with Dashiell Hammett the throne room of American detective fiction, but they are writers of contrasting essence.

9.   Dard was inspired by Georges Simenon, the Belgian author of detective fiction, who is better known in the United States.

10.   His dogged exorcism has its ancestors in hard-boiled detective fiction and film noir.