William Denton sent us to Allen Barr's excellent article
about Raymond Chandler at:
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/07/31/chandler/print.html
I'm not sure I've ever seen anything in print or on the net
where someone has called Chandler a hack and an
imitator.
If we want to say he imitated Hammett, OK, but so what.
Hammett may have hacked out some work in his early days, but
many of his Phillip Marlowe novels are classics worthy to be
called literature.
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