Raymond Chandler never wrote a memoir or autobiography. The closest he came to writing either was in-and around-his novels, shorts stories, and letters. There have been books that describe and evaluate Chandler's life, but to find out what he himself felt about his life and work, Barry Day, editor of The Letters of Noël Coward ('There is much to dazzle here in just the way we expect. the book is meticulous, artfully structured-splendid' -Daniel Mendelsohn; The New York Review of Books), ha