Denise Mina: walking down 'the mean streets' of Raymond Chandler

Subscribe for free: robertmurphy.substack.comAward-winning crime novelist Denise Mina has written the latest Philip Marlowe book: The Second Murderer. To research the book, she spent months studying Los Angeles in 1940, deconstructing Raymond Chandler’s distinct sentence structure and recreating his unique humour.Denise’s career straddles both crime fiction and true crime. She has won many awards - including the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year two years running and has been inducted into the CWA Hall of Fame.This podcast was recorded at CrimeFest, May 2024.The Second Murderer is available here.Denise’s true crime book about Peter Manuel ,The Long Drop, is available here.Raymond Chandler’s books are available here.In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is available here.My own true crime books Decoy and the award-winning To Hunt A Killer are available here. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit robertmurphy.substack.com/subscribe