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Crime novelist Benjamin Black — the pen name used by Booker Prize-winning author John Banville — will write a new "Raymond Chandler" mystery, to be published by Henry Holt in 2013.
"I love the challenge of following in the very large footsteps of Raymond Chandler," Banville said. "I began reading Chandler as a teenager, and frequently return to the novels. This idea has been germinating for several years and I relish the prospect of setting a book in Marlowe's California, which I always think of in terms of Edward Hopper's paintings. Bay City will have a slightly surreal, or hyper-real, atmosphere that I look forward to creating."
The mystery, written under an arrangement with the Chandler estate, will feature an original storyline set in the 1940s.
(Hat tip to Mystery Fanfare for first reporting this news.)
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