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Author
1888–1959
Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in California in 1959. He was educated in England, worked in the oil business and did not start writing seriously until his forties, for the cheap pulp crime magazines. His first novel, The Big Sleep, arrived in 1939, when he was already past fifty.
It introduced Philip Marlowe, a Los Angeles private eye who drinks, smokes and gets tangled in other people's trouble, but keeps a code of his own in a city where nearly everything is for sale. Farewell, My Lovely, from 1940, and The Long Goodbye, from 1953, made him the model for countless later detectives.
Chandler is read as much for the way he writes as for his plots: unexpected similes, quick dialogue and a melancholy peering out from behind every clever line. The city at night is almost another character.
Raymond Chandler
In 1930s Los Angeles, an ailing, wheelchair-bound millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to deal with a blackmail problem tied to his two reckless daughters. Marlowe's first case is a maze of double-crosses, rain-slicked streets and cigarette smoke, told in razor-sharp, wry prose that set the standard for hardboiled fiction.
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Raymond Chandler
Philip Marlowe strikes up an unlikely friendship with Terry Lennox, a charming, battered war veteran, and that loyalty pulls him into a Los Angeles of the very rich, hard cops and dangerous gangsters. Chandler turns the hard-boiled detective story into a sharp portrait of wealth and moral decay. It reads as a gripping case and as a wistful, beautifully written study of friendship and loneliness.
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Raymond Chandler
Philip Marlowe walks the streets of Los Angeles again in his second outing, pulled into a case that winds through seedy bars, wealthy homes and not-quite-honest cops. Chandler's sharp, wry prose turns every scene into a small show of shadows and unforgettable lines.
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