Chandler’s time in London can be most accurately sensed in the writing of Arthur Conan Doyle. The ... career of Sherlock Holmes spanned from 1887 to 1917 and captured a city that Chandler knew at first hand.

- Tom Hiney, Raymond Chandler: A Biography

In one sense, [Marlowe’s world] is almost an elaborate transfiguration of that more simply and robustly cosy world in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson go about their familiar business, returning to 221b Baker Street for relaxation over a well-roasted partridge and a bottle of Burgundy.

- John Bayley, Introduction, Collected Stories of Raymond Chandler