| BIGSLEEP | Chandler novel (with "The") |
| SAM | Central character in the Raymond Chandler novel The Maltese Falcon (3,5) |
| SPADE | Across Central character in the Raymond Chandler novel The Maltese Falcon (3,5) |
| LONG | The ___ Goodbye, Raymond Chandler novel (4) |
| SLEEP | The Big ___, Raymond Chandler novel (5) |
| SAMSPADE | Leading character in Raymond Chandler's novel The Maltese Falcon (3,5) |
| THELONGGOODBYE | Raymond T. Chandler novel |
| FAREWELL | 1940 Raymond Chandler novel (8,2,6) |
| THEBIGSLEEP | Raymond Chandler novel, Bogart film |
| THELITTLESISTER | 1949 Raymond Chandler novel |
| THEHIGH | 1942 Raymond Chandler novel featuring Philip Marlowe (3,4,6) |
| LADYINTHELAKE | Classic 1947 film noir adapted from a Raymond Chandler novel (4,2,3,4) |
| TWOCITIES | The Charles Dickens novel with the opening line, 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of time |
| THREEMUSKETEERS | Novel with the sequel "Twenty Years After," with "The" |
| ICLAUDIUS | Novel with the line "My birth occurred in the 744th year after the foundation of Rome by Romulus" |
| ATLASSHRUGGED | 1957 novel with the working title "The Strike" |
| ROBBERBRIDE | Mary-Louise Parker starred in the 2007 movie version of this 1993 Margaret Atwood novel, with The: 2 |
| ANIMALFARM | George Orwell novel with the line "War is war. The only good human being is a dead one." |
| EMMA | Classic novel with the line "You must be the best judge of your own happiness" |
| MEXICANGOTHIC | Silvia Moreno-Garcia novel with the lines "The walls speak to me. They tell me secrets" |