The Raymond Chandler Papers - Selected Letters & Nonfiction 1909-1959

I don't know why the hell I write so many letters, Raymond Chandler once wrote, in a letter. I guess my mind is just too active for its own good It was also, as Tom Hiney points out in this new selection from Chandler's correspondence, a result of his peripatetic existence, his intense reclusivity, and his insomniac efforts to keep the night at bay.