The author of Farewell, My Lovely, The Big Sleep, and The Long Goodbye, whose detective hero was immortalised on screen by Humphrey Bogart, later stayed at more obviously Chandleresque locations including the Connaught and the Ritz.
Not only were Chandler's novels turned into major noirs Murder, My Sweet (1944; adapted from Farewell, My Lovely), The Big Sleep (1946), and Lady in the Lake (1947)—he was an important screenwriter in the genre as well, producing the scripts for Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia (1946), and Strangers on a Train (1951).
It's your bedtime, just log off, and have a lovely night's sleep, and start this all again tomorrow!
All of my competitiveness began to wash away, and my heart opened up to rediscover this lovely woman I slept one foot away from most of my childhood.
After the lovely 'vision' get some sleep.
Test Match Special (5 Live Sports Extra) Is there anything lovelier than drifting to sleep to the sound of Aggers, CMJ and Michael Vaughan?
He wanted to sleep, enter a lovely blackness, a dark, but not too dark, resting place, unhaunted, unpeopled, with no flickering presences.
Siblings Kami and Jack deliver poppy MOR and brooding blues respectively, though inevitably it's the contributions of the parents who attract most interest – Linda's Perhaps We Can Sleep is especially lovely.
Many of his novels, including "The Big Sleep," "Farewell, My Lovely" and "The Long Goodbye," were made into movies.
