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The Little Sister
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2002; US$ 14.00A movie starlet with a gangster boyfriend and a pair of siblings with a shared secret lure Marlowe into the less than glamorous and more than a little dangerous world of Hollywood fame. Chandler's first foray into the industry that dominates the company town that is Los Angeles. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
The Big Sleep
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableLos Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood?s two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA?s seedy backstreets, Marlowe?s got his work cut out ? and that?s before... more...
The Big Sleep
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2002; US$ 14.00"Chandler [writes] like a slumming angel and invest[s] the sun-blinded streets of Los Angelos with a romantic presence." --Ross Macdonald From the Trade Paperback edition. ]]> more...
Farewell, My Lovely
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2002; US$ 14.95Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
The High Window
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2002; US$ 14.95A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortune?the elements don't quite add up until Marlowe discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and the worst kind of human exploitation. "Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude."-- Erle Stanley Gardner "Raymond Chandler... more...
The Lady in the Lake
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2002; US$ 14.00A couple of missing wives?one a rich man's and one a poor man's?become the objects of Marlowe's investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be dead. Marlowe's not sure he cares about either one, but he's not paid to care. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
The Long Goodbye
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2002; US$ 14.95Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he's divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Playback
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2002; US$ 14.00Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never herd of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but decides he prefers to help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it. "Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles... more...
The Simple Art of Murder
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2002; US$ 14.95Prefaced by the famous Atlantic Monthly essay of the same name, in which he argues the virtues of the hard-boiled detective novel, this collection mostly drawn from stories he wrote for the pulps demonstrates Chandler's imaginative, entertaining facility with the form. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Trouble Is My Business
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2002; US$ 14.00In the four long stories in this collection, Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold digger, runs afoul of crooked politicos, gets a line on some stolen jewels with a reward attached, and stumbles across a murder victim who may have been an extortionist. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...









