By Mark Mix
Home day care providers would be forced into unions
Philip Marlowe soon will be back on the case.
Philip Marlowe will soon be back on the case.
Author Raymond Chandler's wish to spend eternity alongside his beloved wife was fulfilled Monday after her remains were buried over his casket in a Valentine's Day ceremony in San Diego.
Author Raymond Chandler's wish to spend eternity alongside his beloved wife was fulfilled Monday after her remains were buried over his casket in a Valentine's Day ceremony in San Diego.
It was a huge loss to the world of fiction when Robert Parker died in January at 77. His more than 50 crime novels, and the odd Western, sold tens of millions of copies, making Parker one of the most popular novelists of the past 40 years.
When it came to death and where someone spends their eternal rest, literature's most hard-boiled detective, Philip Marlowe, was pretty cynical.
He was a man who liked to listen, and he talked to some of the loneliest people in the world. That perhaps is why Somerset Maugham gained his reputation as a great storyteller and at one time, possibly the most famous writer in the world.
"We're going to have a toast at the grave," said Chandler historian Loren Latker, who has worked for years to reunite the couple. "We're going to drink vodka gimlets."
"It's a bad thing, really, to not follow someone's last wish," Latker, 68, an amiable, silver-haired retiree, said recently as he sat in the kitchen of his beach-front condo surrounded by Chandler memorabilia and old photos of L.A.
