Chandler's most famous protagonist, private detective Philip Marlowe, appears in this first novel, "The Big Sleep". Drawn from Arthurian legend, Marlowe is a modern knight, dedicated to causes greater than himself and to restoring order in the world. Marlowe's first priority is always his client. He is also wary of the authorities, although ...
Marlowe is hired to search for Roger Wade, a novelist who has disappeared on a drinking binge. Wade's wife, Eileen, hopes that Marlowe will become Wade's bodyguard. Marlowe also encounters Terry Lennox, husband of a nymphomaniac heiress who is ultimately murdered, and Marlowe must help Terry, now a suspect, escape to Mexico. In this novel, Marlowe ...
In this second Philip Marlowe novel, the detective is more fleshed-out and well-drawn. Chandler expanded Marlowe's trademark irreverence and wise-guy remakrs, and in "Farewell, My Lovely" Marlowe is more well-intentioned. Taking on the case of Moose Malloy, wrongly imprisoned for robbery, Marlowe must also find Malloy's love Velma, who disappeared ...
The title essay is a long piece on writing detective fiction, in which Chandler delineates precisely what he is trying to achieve in the Marlowe novels.
Derace Kingsley, executive at a cosmetics company, "...can't stand scandal." But a month before he hired Marlowe, his wife went to Mexico for a divorce in order to marry a playboy named Lavery. However, the wife's car is discovered, abandoned, and Lavery doesn't know anything about the divorce scheme. Kinglsey hires Marlowe to find his wife and ...
Marlowe is now married, living in the resort town of Poodle Springs. He sets up as an investigator and soon finds himself in the middle of blackmail and murder. This is an unfinished novel by Raymond Chandler which has been completed by Robert B. Parker.
Orfamay Quest of Manhattan, Kansas, is a "small, neat, rather prissy-looking girl with primly smooth brown hair and rimless glasses." She approaches the detective Marlowe to help her find her missing brother, but she can only afford to pay him $20. What Orfamay Quest doesn't tell Marlowe is that her half-sister is a movie starlet with mob ...
Marlowe's client, Mrs. Murdock, is a wealthy widow whose antique gold coin has been stolen. As the story unwinds, it's clear that Mrs. Murdock's actions belie her posh surroundings. Chandler draws on his characteristic conflict between the Haves (the clients) and the Have-Nots (Marlowe) in his exploration of greed, trust, love and power in a plot ...
Marlowe is hired to trail a girl who seems to be running from something in her past; she gets involved with blackmail and the mob. What is remarkable about this novel is that Marlowe gets involved with a female character, whereas in previous novels he always maintained a professional distance, even against his own desires. PLAYBACK marks an ...
Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel "The Big Sleep" in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colorful underworld figures - is the background to a story reflecting all the tarnished glitter of the great American Dream. ...
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This early novel preceded the introduction of Chandler's famous detective Philip Marlowe, but was a crucial step in setting the stage for his entrance.
In addition to his classic detective novels, Raymond Chandler wrote a lot of letters--many of which manifested his famously trenchant, hardboiled insight. Edited by two Chandler biographers, THE RAYMOND CHANDLER PAPERS collects Chandler's pithiest letters, along with selected nonfiction pieces and some poetry (yes, poetry).
The 1993 Michael Jackson scandal has remained a closely held secret for over ten years. Other than speculation and innuendo, the facts have never been revealed--until now. Inside All That Glitters, Ray Chandler, the boy's uncle, provides the hard evidence. From the day the boy met Michael, through six months of frenzied publicity, and into the ...
A collection of 12 mysteries of which the first eight are early Raymond Chandler mysteries that set the groundwork for the creation of the Philip Marlowe character. The final four are classic Marlowe mysteries.
This classic mystery story is about Private Eye John Dalmas, who witnesses a murder, helps a beautiful blackmail victim, and solves a case as convoluted as a Los Angeles freeway map.
During a period of twenty years that stretched from his beginnings as a pulp writer for The Black Mask, through his writing of the novels The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely, to the Hollywood years of the 1940s, Raymond Chandler kept a series of private notebooks. Filled with both public and private writings, these pages give us an intimate view ...
Authorised by the estate of the late Raymond Chandler, this volume reveals - in 25 new stories - the missing life history and adventures of Philip Marlowe, the quintessential hard-boiled detective. The stories are by some of today's leading crime writers and include Chandler's own "The Pencil".
This collection brings together the famous crime writer's correspondence as well as articles and notes about publishing, crime, and other more unexpected subjects.
Reissued for the 50th anniversary of the film of Chandler's novel, The Big Sleep, this evocative and elegant book juxtaposes excerpts of Chandler's tough, cynical prose with black-and-white photographs of the city he described as "no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness". 100 ...
In this second Philip Marlowe novel, the detective is more fleshed-out and well-drawn. Chandler expanded Marlowe's trademark irreverence and wise-guy remakrs, and in "Farewell, My Lovely" Marlowe is more well-intentioned. Taking on the case of Moose Malloy, wrongly imprisoned for robbery, Marlowe must also find Malloy's love Velma, who disappeared ...
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Raymond Chandler's first three novels, published here in one volume, established his reputation as an unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction. "The Big Sleep," Chandler's first novel, introduces Philip Marlowe, a private detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s, as he takes on a ...
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to ...
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