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An essay by this author states that it would be fun to have to return to page 47 of a book to recall “exactly what time the second gardener potted the prize-winning tea-rose begonia.” That essay by this author laments that the “master of rare knowledge” is living “in the age of the hoop skirt,” and criticizes a novel in which no one sees the artificially roughened hands of a man who claims to come from Australia. This author’s call for a hero who goes down “mean streets” (10[1])titles a Martin Scorsese film. This author’s stories “Spanish Blood” and “Nevada Gas” appear in a book whose title essay picks apart logical errors in A. A. Milne’s (10[1])The Red House Mystery. (10[2])This author set forth tenets for (10[1])an ideal hero in “The Simple Art of Murder.” (10[2]-5[4])For 10 points, (10[1]-5[2])name this (10[1])author whose (10[2])private eye Philip Marlowe (10[2]-5[2])appears in The (10[1])Big (10[1]-5[1])Sleep and The Long (10[1])Goodbye. (10[1])■END■ (10[6]0[1])

ANSWER: Raymond Chandler [or Raymond Thornton Chandler]
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