I'll Be Waiting by Raymond Chandler

[@rosiemcnaughton9933]

Excellent narrator for Chandler's work. Thanks Tony and Brendan.

[@roxyabrooks864]

Oh, my evening plans are going to be settled in right here ! Thank you, Sir Tony! 💯

[@martiwilliams4592]

Good ol` fashioned hard-boiled, with dames, cops, cons hanging off on runningbords, whisky-cigarette throats, gangster'eese, deal-making in front of seedy hotels. Vivid, word-painting narration. Very enjoyable!!!Thanks to you both!

[@janegreen9340]

Excellent, “radio” noir. Brilliant storytelling well characterised.

[@anaderol5408]

Excellent - given Chandler’s panache for florid phrases and complex intrigue - a short story like this one is kinder to my ageing brain 😂😂. I particularly enjoyed the final twist. Some famous one-liners by more modern “hard boiled” characters …. ..”Go ahead, make my day” / “I’ll be back” (although I’ve always suspected that the scriptwriter of the latter phrase was inspired by General MacArthur ! 😂😂

[@MaggieatPlay]

Enjoying these detective stories each with a different narrator. It's like a little surprise gift with each new story. Always enjoyed reading Raymond Chandler. Thank you, Brendan, for a well narrated tale. Thank you, Tony, for doing the work of talent searcher. I like both hard-boiled and softer detective fiction. Actually, I just like a good story that holds my attention. Being read to by all the different narrators and you, Tony is a plus (especially during days I have trouble reading).

[@classicdetective]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@GM-yn9nc]

Great reading voice. Love that thumbnail, well done.

[@classicdetective]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@thurayya8905]

A Raymond Chandler! Oh, this is going to be GOOD!❤

[@vivilad3181]

Great narration skills combined with Chandler's crisp, rhythmic writing made this very enjoyable to listen to.

[@classicdetective]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@denisesudell2538]

@@classicdetectiveTony, please give us more Chandler! I listened to Goldfish this afternoon and immediately came looking for more.

[@garywhite5674]

I love Raymond Chandler, one of the greatest novelists of all time in my view.

[@stringlarson1247]

I love your channel, format. I'm still in my news blackout and sharing a hole with a nice ostrich. These are perfect narcotics. The upside of having a memory like a steel collandar, i get to revisit these, and they remain fresh.

[@ThomasConrad-f3p]

Chandler was a genius, a 'one-off' in the detective style of writing that fitted well into modern American culture. He definately had a major influence on the TV detective characters, especially Mickey Spillane's' 'Mike Hammer'', but unlike Spillane (who spoke as if he came out of a 'gutter') Chandler was well-educated and knew what he was doing with words! It's amazing that his real-life 'persona' was that of a 'dilattente''--this 'rough-neck' 'heavy' Robert Mitcheum said that Chandler appeared wearing gloves and never took them off at parties and was far from the 'tough guy' image he projected in his stories! Yes, very well narrated here and treated with 'respect' for his writing in this presentation.

[@classicdetective]

Great comment

[@lisap.1826]

Good story! Fantastic narration ❤❤

[@cleewestgard]

I've read a lot of Chandler. Thank you for selecting something other than a "famous work". Excellent narration.

[@classicdetective]

You're very welcome!

[@moiraswords8220]

Love these stories

[@jonathanpashley4845]

Top notch short Chandler story, reading excellent and good choice of music. Thanks 😊 Jonathan

[@SilvanaTheNonCraftingCrafter]

Another great yarn well told! I enjoy variety, so any detective is cool with me (as long as it's well written)

[@suitov]

Excellently read. Good work by Brendan. Personally, I like any detective author who can turn a phrase to make me growl "Yeah, that's the good stuff." Chandler regularly achieves that.

[@classicdetective]

We will do more Chandler

[@otempora5799]

Chandler! Loved this! Thank you for talking about the writing and the genre afterwards - just the best - thoughtful, informative and really appreciated!

[@classicdetective]

Glad you appreciated it

[@jeanette6396]

This was incredibly good! The narrator is able to do justice to the writing so that you can enter into the story. Voices are different , pacing is right. Congratulations. I hope to hear more from Brendan.

[@classicdetective]

Yes , he’s very good

[@mirmcnabb]

Really enjoyed this! Thanks so much for the collaboration!

[@rosainecalmeyer4428]

Brendan, your commentary alone adds to the genre; absolutely fascinating.

[@classicdetective]

Glad you liked it.

[@Wien1938]

Very enjoyable. Chandler is one of my favourite authors. He was a real influence on Lindsey Davis (Falco series) and you can hear his voice from Farewell My Lovely in her early Falco works.

[@Faretheewell608]

I have everything he wrote, and still it is mot enough. I refuse to read Poodle Springs.

[@WilliamTuckwell-r8b]

Thanks guys for a good story well narrated. I thought Brendon improved as it went on. I found myself soon not thinking about the narration at all and for me, at least, that’s a good thing. 👍

[@ruthwalton3457]

Thank you 😍 Brendan you did a smashing narration too 😍

[@classicdetective]

Thank you too!

[@applthorn]

Great story, great reader. Thank you!

[@classicdetective]

Thanks for listening

[@JensLarsson-vi5py]

Great performance! Many thanks to you "both" This, my second only visit to your new channel and am now of course a subscriber and it seems to be a future Gold mine for all your listeners ! May your channels grow and again many thanks , "Pariscrbe"

[@classicdetective]

Ah ha. I recognise you

[@ainemoroney9965]

That accent really is a pleasure to listen to Brendan❤👌. I'll be keeping an eye out for more of your work.

[@classicdetective]

He’s a good un

[@shirleyshin6186]

I like em both and Brendan is very very good at narrating.

[@classicdetective]

I agree

[@thurayya8905]

Perfect.

[@comshawqueen2534]

A great story and a wonderful narration! Casper was a great choice and his “American” accent fooled this American. 👏

[@classicdetective]

He’s got a talent

[@AlgorithmEngagementEntity]

Pleased to find you working with this genre as well, one of my favorites. Sadly, born too late for a career with a fedora, a bottle in the drawer and lighting cigarettes of femme fatales.

[@classicdetective]

You can always try. you may attract the odd femme fatale which may or may not be a good thing

[@rutimizrachi]

Just discovered this channel. Wow! I love the style, very much including your commentary at the end. The narrators I've heard so far (you, Brendan Sullivan and Casper Stokhuyzen) have been marvelous. Keep 'em coming! I will definitely share.

[@classicdetective]

Thank you very much!

[@PippaAT]

What a welcome surprise to hear your voice at the end! I really enjoyed this.

[@classicdetective]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@anthonychase4364]

Brilliantly rendered.

[@leonorsantos9355]

Thanks!

[@classicdetective]

Welcome!

[@otempora5799]

Oh my goodness! Aaron Kenny composed the score for the Aussie film Crushed - my son did post-production sound for that film! 😊

[@classicdetective]

very interesting!

[@JS-wg4px]

Love the commentary.

[@janegrubb7411]

Your commentary is much appreciated and enjoyed.

[@classicdetective]

that is very gratifying to hear . thank you

[@phillipmarlowe0525]

Floyd Thursby name appeared in the Maltese Falcon with Bogart. lol.

[@doorbasher77unwellnews52]

Great story and well read

[@Gretschbeach]

One of the aspects of the hard boiled anti-heroes that is often implied but rarely said is that most of these guys were war vets with PTSD. Many of the authors would have been introduced to weapons of mass destruction like gas, and explosives bigger than the world had never known by witnessing it first hand. The scale of moral ambiguity and attitudes to faceless violence were new. I mean, if any one was looking for arm-chair psychology.

[@classicdetective]

Loved this comment and it really helps illuminate the genre . Thank you 🙏

[@teresawilson9530]

Fantastic 👍

[@ropeburnsrussell]

Hardboiled!! Thats the ticket ,see.

[@KathyComplex]

This was great. Thank you. Love your commentary. Let's think about the morality issue. Philip Marlowe,i think you'll agree, was practically a saint, was he not? Not conventionally "moral." Certainly not amoral. He followed his own inner moral compass. He was pretty highly evolved, i think. What say you?

[@classicdetective]

This is something I think of a lot when I come to these stories. I think it is forced by a current modern preoccupation with splitting the world into a false dichotomy of good guys and bad guys. And if you fall into the bad guy category, then you are erased and cannot be listened to or heard in anything you say. then we found out that the people making these damming judgements of others live in glasshouses themselves

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Hmm. ? Marlowe's " Sir Galahad " act wears a bit thin after a while . His attitude to women ( best not get involved with them ? ) might have another explanation . Not based on some high minded code of Chivalry...?

[@lunablue745]

I hear the intro music and I think of a man in a rumpled suit with a cigarette hanging out one corner of his mouth. His top lip twitching while he speaks; "yeah, see, I'm gonna blow ya away see, yeah." Great narration Brendan! Also, is it me, or were there just a little too many adjectives in the beginning?😮

[@classicdetective]

Glad you liked it. As for the adjectives, that’s down to old Chandler

[@SherryBlackwell-xf3wo]

Brendon did a first class job; Smooth, easy with the right amount of boredom.

[@MartiWilliams-r2z]

Ditto also this time around. Thank you.

[@gangstarekfilms472]

Brandon's fine, Thanks for sharing your thoughts too.

[@stephaniehand503]

great

[@thurayya8905]

Wil-shure.

[@sullivanartco]

Aaaahhh you're right! I totally biffed that pronunciation 😅

[@marisadallavalle393]

Thank you!

[@classicdetective]

You're welcome!

[@marshamellows2908]

I have sea grey eyes.

[@donnahdunthorn5207]

"The house squatted at the back of the lot, like an old man too angry and bitter to move."

[@judikingsman6132]

❤❤❤

[@sunflowerhelen9933]

I enjoyed this, but the description is confusing where it mentions a couple with problems. The names don't match the ones in the narrative.

[@classicdetective]

I’m sorry about that

[@ropeburnsrussell]

Good narration, but i still want Tony to read one.

[@classicdetective]

I do the next one

[@ropeburnsrussell]

@@classicdetective yay!!!

[@geraldvaughan5103]

I want to listen to it in bed - I hope I don't have to get up and 'skip' should temu interruptions

[@classicdetective]

let us know if you had to get up to skip interruptions

[@MiltaHernandez]

Dismissed

[@pamsmith519]

Hugh frasier would have been better in reading this

[@classicdetective]

His fee might have been a bit much for my budget

[@Faretheewell608]

Chandlers would have liked that.

[@Brembelia]

You should get Benedict Cumberbatch to narrate these. The current reader's voice is flat and raspy. Very distracting. Not listening to the story. The voice is so distracting. You need an experienced, versatile actor to read these.

[@classicdetective]

How much do you think Benedict would charge ? will you split the costs with me ?

[@anaderol5408]

@@classicdetective😂😂😂😂

[@Faretheewell608]

It is not AI, so I am happy.