Chandlerish

From Chandler +‎ -ish, after writer Raymond Chandler.

Chandlerish (comparative more Chandlerish, superlative most Chandlerish)

1. Resembling the work of author Raymond Chandler in style or theme
   • 1973, The New York Times biographical service, volume 4, New York Times & Arno Press, page 1518:

     […] Polanski has been completing with the writer Robert Towne the script for his new movie, a Chandlerish detective story of the thirties, "Chinatown" […]

   • 1992 August 15, Billboard, volume 104, number 33, page 57:

     Broadbent's smoky, sultry originals "The Long Goodbye" and "Lady In The Lake" uphold the album's Chandlerish spirit.

   • 1997 The BFI companion to crime, Volume 1997, Part 2, University of California Press, p44

     These include Miller and artist David Mazzucchelli’s Batman: Year One (19867) [sic] which covers Bruce Wayne’s (and Jim Gordon’s) first weeks on the streets, in a Chandlerish tale of crooked cops and a rotten city […]