Chaucer’s Books will host Arvind Ethan David for a book talk and signing of his graphic novel “Raymond Chandler’s Trouble is My Business,” 6 p.m. Thursday, May 22 at 3321 State St., Santa Barbara.

Like a private eye sizing up the details of a dicey new case, Joe Ide took the call from the Raymond Chandler Estate with a healthy amount of hesitation. “I was thrilled at first, as any crime writer ...

As only the third author ever authorized by Raymond Chandler’s estate to write a Philip Marlowe novel, Lawrence Osborne declares, in his postscript to “Only to Sleep,” that the task was “perilous.” He ...

“Marlowe” is an adaptation of the 2014 book “The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Philip Marlowe Novel” by Irish novelist and Booker Award winner John Banville (“Doctor Copernicus”), writing as his pseudonymous ...