I felt like an amputated leg

Raymond Chandler, author

I felt like an amputated leg

-Raymond Chandler, author

Raymond Chandler, for the uninitiated, is a writer of pulp fiction, in the hardboiled detective/ noir style that was at its most popular in the 1920s through the 1950s. His whole life, he wrote poetry while working other jobs, and in his forties, when he was fired during the Depression, Chandler turn…