Strand Magazine: Unpublished Raymond Chandler Article PLUS a 3-Year Subscription

 In our latest issue, we witness Chandler’s humor—and his progressive side—in “Advice to a Secretary.” Published here for the first time, the article covers everything from his contempt for grammarians to his discomfort with the employer-employee relationship. It also makes clear that, like his most famous protagonist, Chandler’s sympathies lay with those less powerful. Raymond Chandler scholar Professor Sarah Trott pens an introduction providing not only context but also an in-depth analysis of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished article.

If you’re looking for a short story that turns snobbery on its head, turn to Alexander McCall Smith’s humorous “Lord Lucan, Fugitive.” Prefer prisoners on the loose? Try John Floyd’s “The Road to Bellville.” And if you want to witness a new writer destined for more pages, check out “My Friend Edward” by Christine DeVine. Whatever your choice, we’d all agree the Great Detective should never be left behind. Thomas Burns brings him home with “The Camberwell Poisoner,” replete with Baker Street Irregulars, suspicious sweets, and a spurned lover. For the best works beyond these pages, our skilled critics dissect the latest books and DVDs in our review section.

We have an exclusive interview with Michael Koryta. A breakout success from an early age, Michael has continuously spurned conventional wisdom by experimenting in whatever direction moved him. The result has been an outstanding writing career and a varied list of thought-provoking novels that have repeatedly hit the best-sellers lists.

The Strand Magazine continues to bring our readers the best in fiction, interviews with authors, and book and audiobook reviews. In the past nine years, we’ve featured unpublished works by writers ranging from Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Chandler, H.G. Wells, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, Tennessee Williams, and Joseph Heller . Issue 63 of Strand Magazine: Unpublished Raymond Chandler Article PLUS Fiction by Alexander McCall Smith is available as a single issue, or part of a subscription or back issue package

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Fun Fact 1#: In issue 61 of the Strand, we released Chandler’s comical article “Advice to an Employer” which pokes fun at corporate America and is a prescient work, by an author known for penning dark cynical detective novels.