"The Big Sleep," "Farewell, My Lovely," "The High Window" and "The Lady in the Lake" are published in "The Raymond Chandler Omnibus," with a forward by Lawrence Clark Powell.

Powell says: "Almost everything written about La Reina de Los Angeles, however, has been by those revolted by her, intentionally satirizing her follies and hot with scorn that blinds a writer to the details of the local scene." He adds, Chandler "didn’t moralize, satirize, deplore or lament," a contention challenged by Times book editor Robert R. Kirsch in this 1964 review.