Support for criminal comes from caviar with the caviar app. You can get the food. You want delivered right. Your doorstep caviar helps you find the best What's in your neighborhood and with collections like Meditary, any inveigle vegetarian and more, it's very easy to find good food for whatever you're feeling brain now, Caviar is giving criminal listeners. Twenty percent of your first order just enter the promo code. Phoebe a check out remember that twenty percent off your first order with promo code, Phoebe Download, caviar up and use Africa Phoebe for twenty percent of your first order, thanks to calm for there The port column is a meditation sleep and relaxation app it's designed to help you stress and anxiety, with guided meditations sound scapes call master classes and much more right now: com offering criminal listeners especial limited time. Promotion of forty percent off a comb premium subscription at com, dot, com, slash criminal, that's what

percent off. Unlimited access to coms, entire library and new content is added every week get started today. At calm, dot, com, slash criminal, that's com, a calm, slash criminal. I don't think I ever in my own mind, think, everybody's alone, you don't find anyone we're alive,

this is the only surviving recording of crime. Writer Raymond Chandler's voice, it's from a nineteen. Fifty eight interview a year before he died, he's a little hard to understand because, as the story goes, he was extremely drunk. He was drunk a lot, especially near the end of his life. But what he said here is that he doesn't ever think anybody is a villain. You don't find anyone, that's all bad! It seems to me that the real mystery is not who killed so John. In his study, but what the situation really was, what the people after I told the people they were. It seems to me that the real mystery is not who killed, Sir John in the study, but what the situation really was, what the

People were after what sort of people they were. He wrote seven crime novels, including the long goodbye in the big sleep and introduced the world to Philip Marlowe, a clever hard drinking LOS Angeles, private, detective Marlowe doesn't have the genius of Sherlock Holmes or tuxedos like James Bond, he's just a guy a little bit philosophical and a little bit flirtation. Yes, but always very, very calm, as Marlowe says in the novel play back he's, never settle anything there, just a fast curtain to a bad second act with a writer is biggest Chandler with archives at Oxford and use the allay you think there wouldn't be much left to discover about his life, but as Lawrence more found out, there is one last mystery and the only people who could solve it were. A couple of seventy rose

with each other and obsessed with Chandler, I'm Phoebe judge. This is criminal. He said LOS Angeles had the personality of a paper copy yeah and I think at some point. He also said that somebody had the personality of the inside of a shoebox Lauren Lakers been reading chanler, since he was seventeen years old and he's now. Seventy two, so a long time here talking to his wife, Annie the what about the one about the blonde that, because the bishop to pile on the blonde, the makeup bishop kick in a stain glass window, yeah, that's his that's Chandler are the one is noticeable as a tarantula on an angel food cake. He was a master at simile. This is my favorite thing about Chandler. He wrote crazy sentences.

I belonged an idle valley like a pearl onion on a banana split, or I felt like an amputated leg away, had a way with words. Definitely Lauren has always been a Chandler fan, but Annie says she has more of a casual fan before she met Lauren. He was completely mesmerized and chadler devoted to him and I'm devoted to learn. So it was a way of of really warning to to understand how Lauren thought it was like. Okay, if I can really understand and region of Chandler I'll know how he thinks too, and then I kind of stepped into Laurens Chandler World Laurence Chandler. world doesn't just involve revealing the novels and biographies its hands on his photographed. All the spots in LOS Angeles were Chandler lived and all the places Eddie wrote about and his track down any one he can find, who knew Chandler, who first so that we met with was Dorothy. His secretary

and she was the had arrived and he's gotten much better people skills we invited forever offer. And that's how we got to know or more and poured over the is there been written about Chandler Life and what he realized was that every single one has basically the same ending, and not one of them got array. So here's what you need to know about Raymond Chandler in order to make sense of what Lauren found There was young long before It became a writer he fought and where war, one with a friend of his name, Gordon Pascal, this friend Gordon, is important because shortly after two of them got home from the war Raymond. I fell in love with Gordon Stepmom Stepmother, yes Pearl Eugenia, but she went by the nickname, sissy and since he was eighteen

is older than seventeen or eighteen. Seventy nine or ten years older than RE says you lied about her age. Most everyone she cleaning. House in the nude, learn in any describers bohemian, a free spirit. Eventually, she left her husband and became Does he Chandler she really enjoyed cooking for him? and they also had this class menagerie of animals and they didn't. They had a lot of fantasy between them. They played for those little glass animal. Like they were children and they would make up stories in and they would help in their cars. When they would go up into the sand, you do know our up into their mouths local mountains and was quite romance. What do you think that she liked about him? I think that she liked fit down that tat. He had the soul of a Lloyd and then he was handsome and that to shoot.

is called them. Re meal raymie- oh she's, very sexy, attracted to him. They were crazy about each other by some people refer to insult me, something Children start writing crime novels until after they were married, he publishes first one the big sleep at age, fifty one there are married for thirty years. She got sick, he waited on her hand and foot. He checker into the hospital She call right away and say, come get me out of here and he would even if it meant she had to go right back, because she couldn't breathe cystic fibrosis far better result. Rumour was turning the lungs to stolen from shore sissy with eighty four years old when she died and Chandler fell apart. He wrote for thirty years ten months and for days she was the light of my life. My whole ambition, anything I did was just the fire for her to warm her hands that he attempted suicide after she died. He was

deeply deeply depressed- always was an alcoholic, but he drank even more. There was a small funeral and since he was cremated, Chandler was sad and apparently going crazy. In the years after Cissy died, some say he was so lonely they and so drunk. He would propose marriage to any woman within earshot. He died and nineteen fifty nine just five years later, because no one could find burial instructions. He was buried at public expense by the city of San, Diego and Mountain hope, cemetery world. By two thousand and ten I was doing some further research read the Ray had wanted his eyes to go to an I bank. He wanted to be cremated, he wanted to be with sissy, and I knew that hadn't happened. I didn't know where she was at the time. I knew that she was had been placed in Cyprus View and that he was in

MT hope. The cemetery. I had no idea where they were in relationship to each other or anything at all about them, I'm thinking, while G he wanted to be with sissy. He won't let all to wait to have his eyes go too when I bank, but maybe I can bring the two of them together. So what do you do? First, called Cyprus View And say you know: do you have sissy chanler there? Well, no, we can't find her Lauren kept, calling and trying to get answers and each time called he got a little bit more information. One time the person on the phone said o sissy is here. She on a shelf drawn on a shelf was Other remains on a shelf in alike. Again again the shelves in the store room. I got the idea that it didn't seem kosher

couldn't actually go and see the urn for himself. He needed a family member. I couldn't find any body related to re and I started tracking down. Relatives- and I I found a great great grand niece and a great great great grand niece and contacted them on that's a great idea. One should go, go ahead, and do that know we we it, but that wasn't good enough Laura needed. Someone closer like a daughter son, the other option was to go to court So they got a lawyer. Her name's LISA Wayne. Coincidentally, the but are of legendary actor John Wayne and looking for them, the judge turned out to be a Chandler fan and the judge kept getting Revolved in other cases like they were just you know, like ordinary cases,. Like neighbors fighting here. This is the other thing and he kept saying. Ok, dented dismissed dismiss dismiss hurry to get our case. In fact, he had led one of one point

dismisses for now, because I have a very important case coming up. He was very excited about it, and so there we were and an eye is certain: Lauren lie down at the table and there's the judge and the judge starts asking well, the first thing out of his mouth was: I'm not inclined to grant us right. Convince me convinced me, and so I had earlier gone to the guy at the crematorium and had asked him to be available to be on the phone, so it was like appearing Mason thing, because is a simple, your honor. We actually have somebody ready to charge you on the phone and out of the phone in the courtroom Came the voice of the guy at the crematorium in the judges So where is Sis II in the guy said? the storage room. We tracked this guy down, he doesn't Could the crematorium anymore and didn't wanna be recorded, but he said he remembered talking to the judge

actually said that learn in any took up a lot of his time. He kept telling me that Sis II was created there before he was even and so we had no idea why she was in storage and then the judge looks back and he said not just as you can learn, but no one should be left in a room like that where people can't visit them and he granted the the petition with the judges. Ok, Lord in any- and to Cyprus, view the crematorium where Sissy was being stored. You walk and swords all marble, there was one room where they had a fire base and the niches were like a bookcase glass fronts and you shouldn't pigs, chair and in front, fireplace it looked like a library, except that your loved one would be in a niche behind little glass door and you didn't talk to them or whatever you want to do

and all the rest of it that the entire it was absolutely gorgeous all marble and what it so the place was beautiful. But what about the room where sissy as well? I'm getting to that you would bring the casket in you'd have your service, and then there was this ramp at the back of the chapel that goes down to the crematorium. And you come down facing these two one hundred years, old, brick Cremation ovens, look like kind of Rube Goldberg affair with pipes and peoples and knobs and valves and things on the front and two and a half three foot high hinged at the top with a hasp and up padlock on it, and that is where Sissy was and over in the an alcove to that room. So blond, mores and brooms and the other things her ashes had been

on that shelf for fifty seven years, it's technically called long term storage. But to you or me, it looks like she got put in a closet, There are two reasons why someone would wind up there, instead of being in turn, either because it was the cheapest option or because you just forgot to go, collect the ashes. We think that here kind of forgot to get the remains and bury them like he had intended to do. Lauren also told me that permanent storage is a nice sounding euphemism for tossed in a box and forgotten Mornin any arranged another funeral service to bring ray and sissy together and on Valentine stay two thousand eleven. They held the service at Mount Hope Cemetery for about a hundred people and they got some local news. Fred Cyprus View mausoleum could have legally thrown away. Sissies unclaimed ashes and nineteen fifty nine actor towers play detective, Philip Marlowe in a popular nineteen. Eighty three tv series he read his favorite Chandler quote:

During the ceremony, I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars. Lauren Laker is a Chandler buff and organize the days of Burnham cured. How do you feel about? I mean you ve kind of written yourself into Raymond Chandler Biography now your soul Not sure how Ray would feel about that, but I was doing it to help ray all of his wishes were ignored. So to me that was in That was something that was wrong and need to be righted. And so that's why I went out and did that last question and you can just say that's ridiculous, but I wonder if you ever imagine their ghosts. Sort of saying thank you. absolutely absolutely believe in ghosts, we're very different way in My mind's eye, I feel very delightful that their dad

Senor round the cemetery. Yes, that's what I think I am dull Germany work on that level, finished yet the idea that you can go to Mount hope, cemetery to visit, sissy and re and also see a list bit of Lauren and Annie line from their. Favorite Chandler novel inscribed on the new headstone. It reads: dead men heavier than broken hearts, That's Loring, Spore born lacquer has achieved their website. This town dot com, where you can see, is brand New Raymond Chandler Map it has to oh eighty, seven qr codes, so you can scan it with your phone and see spots that were Other important Chandler or do is detective. Philip Marlowe criminal is reduced by Lauren Eric Mental and

Julian Alexander Desert episode, art, and we have some news criminal putting on alive, show here and Durham North Carolina on one. Day January twenty one ST if you live nearby we'd love to see you you can learn more in our website. This is criminal dot com or on Facebook, and twitter at criminal show I'm Phoebe judge. This is criminal.