Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, July 1988. Trade Paperback. Raymond Chandler's first novel, published in 1939, introduces us to Philip Marlowe, a thirty-eight-old private detective moving through the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s. The case involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder. More
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, August 1988. Trade Paperback. More
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, August 1988. Trade Paperback. Philip Marlowe is constantly on the move with a case involving a war scarred drunk and his nymphomania wife. More
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, August 1988. Trade Paperback. The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe - Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson. In noir master Raymond Chandler's Playback, Philip Marlowe is hired..... More
Library of America, October 1995. Hardcover. Later Novels and Other Writings begins with The Lady in the Lake (1943). Written during the war, the story takes Marlowe out of the seamy L.A. streets to the deceptive tranquility of the surrounding mountains, as the search for a businessman's missing wife expands..... More
Library of America, October 1995. Hardcover. In Raymond Chandler's hands, the pulp crime story became a haunting mystery of power and corruption, set against a modern cityscape both lyrical and violent. With humor, and an unerring sense of dialogue and the telling detail he created a fictional universe out of..... More
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