- Overshadowed by Controversy: Though his stories were high-sellers (the high-seller according to some sources) during the Golden Age of Mysteries, genre enthusiasts today often first learn of Vance through hardboiled maestro Raymond Chandler's disgust and mockery (per The Simple Art of Murder: "the most asinine character in detective fiction"). Much like the effect Mark Twain had on the works of James Fenimore Cooper.
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