Raymond Thornton Chandler is a pivotal British-Anerican author who emerge from the Great Depression to started writting and pioneering his own spin on the already existing hard-boiled noir genre started by Hammett after being fired from his job as an oil executive at 44. His series explore the dark, rotten underbelly of Los Angeles's glamour through his morally ambiguous, knight-errant detective, Philip Marlowe, whose style consists of wise-cracks, sarcasm and introspection.