National Review, September 29th, 1997
Simenon, by Pierre Assouline, translated by Jon Rothschild (Knopf, 447 pp., $32.50)
Raymond Chandler, by Tom Hiney (Atlantic Monthly Press, 320 pp., $12)
Mr. Lejeune is NR's longtime London correspondent.
COMPARE and contrast -- as examinations used to say before they came to consist of ticking little boxes -- Georges Simenon and Raymond Chandler. The immediate thing they have in common is two new biographies, both heavily researched, both rather badly written. Chandler in particular, who was classically educated and a master of his own colorful, carefully wrought style, would surely have...
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