The car was manufactured in Detroit, at the company’s Mack Street plant. He was a dentist, and he had placed his order for the $850 automobile the week before. On this date in 1903, the Ford Motor Company sold its first car. Here’s an excerpt from “When I Was King” (1909): He later categorized his early poems as “Grade B Georgian,” and though the subject matter is pretty far removed from the hard-boiled fiction he would later write, there’s something of Philip Marlowe’s world-weary, betrayed hero in these lines. When he lived in London, he published several poems and essays in the Westminster Gazette. It’s less commonly known that his first writing was not detective fiction, but poetry. Chandler also worked as a screenwriter in the 1940s, turning out such film noir classics as Double Indemnity (1944), The Blue Dahlia (1946), and Strangers on a Train (1951). Philip Marlowe, his novels’ hero, was inspired by Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade, and inspired Robert B. Over the next six years, he wrote 20 more stories and published the first of seven novels, The Big Sleep (1939). He wrote his first story, called “Blackmailers Don’t Shoot,” and it was published in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933. The oil industry’s loss was detective fiction’s gain. The following year, when he was 44, he was fired for absenteeism and drunkenness. In 1922, he got a bookkeeping job with the Dabney Oil Syndicate, and within 10 years he was the vice president. He enlisted in the Canadian army during World War I, fought in the trenches, and was transferred to the Royal Air Force. He stayed in England until 1912, then returned to the States to take a series of odd jobs, like sporting goods clerk, ranch hand, and accountant. He was born in Chicago, but moved to London with his mother in 1895 when his parents divorced. Today is the birthday of detective novelist Raymond Chandler (1888). “ Boy Scouts Camping Out ” by Norbert Krapf, from Somewhere in Southern Indiana: Poems of Midwestern Origins.
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