Frank MacShane (ed.) Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler, Columbia University Press: NY, 1981, 501 pp., 1981, 1957
"Dear Harwick [Moseley], (Jan. 5, 1957)
" . . .
" . . . I don't suppose that any mystery writer since Conan Doyle and perhaps Willard Huntington Wright (and what drivel he wrote) was ever a bestseller in a large way. (Wright wrote the Philo Vance detective stories under the pseudonym of S.S. Van Dine.) . . .
"Yours, Ray" [Chandler] p. 415