BOOKS by Raymond Chandler

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1	Big Sleep more books like this by Raymond Chandler see all copies from £2.01! new only from £4.94! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Long Goodbye more books like this by Raymond Chandler 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 ... see all copies from £1.35! new only from £8.08! \| first editions
3	Farewell My Lovely more books like this by Raymond Chandler This is a series of simplified stories, designed as an introduction to literature. The series offers classics, best-sellers, film-titles and original stories. Each book has extensive exercises, a detailed introduction and information about the syllabus. They are published at six levels: level 1 - beginner (300 words); level 2 - elementary (500 ... see all copies from £1.35! new only from £6.19! \| first editions
4	Playback more books like this by Raymond Chandler 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 ... see all copies from £1.35! new only from £6.07! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Lady in the Lake more books like this by Raymond Chandler Philip Marlowe goes out of his usual city habitat into the mountains outside of Los Angeles in his strange search for a missing woman. see all copies from £1.35! new only from £6.29! \| first editions
6	Poodle Springs more books like this by Raymond Chandler 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. see all copies from £1.35! new only from £5.83! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Simple Art of Murder more books like this by Raymond Chandler 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. see all copies from £4.99! new only from £9.37! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Killer in the Rain more books like this by Raymond Chandler 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. see all copies from £1.35! new only from £6.77! \| first editions
9	High Window more books like this by Raymond Chandler 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 ... see all copies from £1.35! new only from £6.20! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Trouble is My Business more books like this by Raymond Chandler 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. see all copies from £1.35! new only from £5.98! \| first editions
11 view cover	The Little Sister more books like this by Raymond Chandler 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 ... see all copies from £1.35! new only from £5.40! \| first editions
12 view cover	Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings more books like this by Raymond Chandler, Frank McShane (Editor), Professor Frank MacShane (Editor) 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 ... see all copies from £16.55! new only from £19.32! \| first editions
13 view cover	Chandler: Stories and Early Novels more books like this by Raymond Chandler, Frank McShane (Editor), Professor Frank MacShane (Editor) 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 ... see all copies from £17.12! new only from £24.33! \| first editions
14 view cover	The big sleep and other novels more books like this by Raymond Chandler 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. ... see all copies from £2.82! new only from £13.20!
15 view cover	The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction 1909-1959 more books like this by Tom Hiney (Editor), Professor Frank MacShane (Editor) 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). see all copies from £5.40! new only from £6.80! \| first editions
16 view cover	The notebooks of Raymond Chandler and English summer : a gothic romance more books like this by Raymond Chandler 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 ... see all copies from £5.98! new only from £6.08! \| first editions
17 view cover	Raymond Chandler speaking more books like this by Raymond Chandler Creator of Philip Marlowe and a noted dialogue writer, Raymond Chandler was one of this century's greatest detective writers and also an inveterate letter writer. This book, which marks the centenary of his birth, consists of a selection of such letters from Chandler to his friends and some of his unpublished writings, as well as the author's ... see all copies from £1.95! new only from £10.10! \| signed copies \| first editions
18	Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler more books like this by Professor Frank MacShane (Photographer), Raymond Chandler see all copies from £5.40! new only from £18.23! \| first editions
19 view cover	Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles more books like this by Elizabeth M Ward, M.S., R.D. (Editor), Alain Silver, M S Ward (Editor) 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 ... see all copies from £9.41! new only from £12.62! \| first editions
20	Raymond Chandler Omnibus more books like this by Raymond Chandler see all copies from £3.91! first editions
21 view cover	The long good-bye more books like this by Raymond Chandler Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. He's willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe finds himself drawn into ... see all copies from £1.35! new only from £6.89! \| first editions
22 view cover	The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window more books like this by Raymond Chandler, Diane Johnson (Introduction by) This Everyman's Library volume brings together Raymond Chandler's first three novels--the books that made him the master of American crime fiction. see all copies from £12.82! new only from £17.15!
23	Farewel My Lovely V138 more books like this by Raymond Chandler 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 ... see all copies from £5.40! new only from £65.03! \| first editions
24 view cover	The Big Sleep and Farewell My Lovely more books like this by Raymond Chandler 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 ... see all copies from £3.04! new only from £13.66! \| first editions
25 view cover	Collected Stories more books like this by Raymond Chandler Twenty-five stories, long and short, remind readers again why Chandler's characters are among the most alluring and imitated in 20th-century fiction. see all copies from £12.16! new only from £28.81! \| first editions

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