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1) The Big Sleep: A Novel

Author

Chandler, Raymond

Series

Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 1

Formats

Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

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The renowned novel from the crime fiction master, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe. • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome...

2) The World of Raymond Chandler

Pub. Date

1978, c1977

Physical Desc

189 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

3) The world of Raymond Chandler: in his own words

Author

Chandler, Raymond

Pub. Date

2014.

Physical Desc

xx, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Description

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"The first book to give us the life and times of Raymond Chandler through his own writing-from the acclaimed editor of The Letters of Noël Coward. Chandler never wrote an autobiography or a memoir. Now Barry Day, making use of Chandler's novels, short stories, and letters as well as Day's always illuminating commentary, gives us the life of "the man with no home," a man precariously balanced between his classical English education with its immutable...

4) The Raymond Chandler papers: selected letters and non-fiction, 1909-1959

Author

Chandler, Raymond

Pub. Date

Physical Desc

xi, 266 pages ; 24 cm

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"With his classic novels and stories featuring the hardboiled private detective Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler transformed the detective story and became one of the most iconic and imitated writers of the twentieth century. But despite the fame he attained through best-selling books such as The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye, as well as the screenplay for such groundbreaking film noir as Double Indemnity, he remained an intensely private man throughout...