Chandleresque

D.B. Grady is the author of Red Planet Noir, a cross-genre Chandleresque mystery set on Mars.

MIND MELD: The Best Genre Crossovers 2010

Chandleresque: proceedings marked by hardboiled description, bouts of violence and femmes fatale.

Less Popular Judicial ‘esque’s : Law is Cool 2009

Some of Arjouni's Chandleresque flourishes don't quite come off, as in, "My face was dripping like lettuce that's just been washed."

Unlikely gumshoe with grit Richard Lipez 2011

Are those “Joycean” and “Chandleresque” styles themselves simply remixes of styles that came before?

Archive 2009-02-01 Hal Duncan 2009

Chandleresque: proceedings marked by hardboiled description, bouts of violence and femmes fatale.

2009 February : Law is Cool 2009

Some of Arjouni's Chandleresque flourishes don't quite come off, as in, "My face was dripping like lettuce that's just been washed."

Unlikely gumshoe with grit Richard Lipez 2011

Are those “Joycean” and “Chandleresque” styles themselves simply remixes of styles that came before?

Creative Control - Part 4 Hal Duncan 2009

To ask whether "Imperial Bedrooms" is Chandleresque is to suggest how desperately far afield we have gone.

Zero Progress 2010

Part of the allure of these novels is that Bernie is such an interesting creation, a Chandleresque knight errant caught in insane historical surroundings.

Nazi Noir Ventures To Havana In 'Dead Rise Not' 2010

The uncanny horror of crime is an integral part of the urban environment, but in its very seediness the underworld is also wonderland, the cityscape of Chandleresque Noir/Thriller fiction shot through with the same romanticism we find in vampire fiction, with a sense of the city at night as dark idyll, as decadent's playground, embodying our adult desires for sex and power.

Narrative Grammars Hal Duncan 2008