It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.

Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature and is considered by many to be a founder along with Dashiell Hammett James M. He died on March 26 1959 in La Jolla California. Parker).