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The Big Sleep
DescriptionWhen a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe locates himself involved together with extra than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.

"Chandler [writes] like a slumming angel and invest[s] the ...
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The Long Goodbye
DescriptionMarlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran together with the scars to prove it. Then he locates out this 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 afterwards Marlowe.
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Farewell, My Lovely
DescriptionMarlowe's concerning to provide up on a fully routine case when he locates himself in the wrong situate at the right time to get caught up in a murder this leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple extra murders, and extra corruption than your average graveyard.
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The Lady in the Lake
DescriptionA 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 concerning either one, but he's not paid to care.
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The High Window
DescriptionA wealthy Pasadena widow together with a indicate streak, a missing daughter-in-law together 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 ...
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The Simple Art of Murder
DescriptionPrefaced 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 together with the shape.
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The Little Sister
DescriptionHer name is Orfamay Quest and she's come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to locate her missing brother Orrin. Or least ways this's what she tells PI Philip Marlowe, offering him a measly twenty bucks for the privilege. But Marlowe's feeling charitable though it's not long before he wishes he wasn't so sweet. You see, Orrin's trail leads Marlowe ...
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Trouble Is My Business
DescriptionIn 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 together with a reward attached, and stumbles across a murder victim who may have been an extortionist.
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Playback (Biblioteca De Autor/ Author Library) (Spanish Edition)
DescriptionStalking the tawdry neon wilderness of forties and fifties Los Angeles, Raymond Chandler's hard-drinking, wise-cracking Phillip Marlowe is one of the world's much famous fictional detectives. "Playback" locates Marlowe mixing business together with pleasure - getting paid to follow a mysterious and lovely red-head named Eleanor King. And wherever Miss King ...
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The Big Sleep and Other Novels (Penguin Modern Classics)
DescriptionRaymond Chandler created the quick talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first excellent novel "The Big Sleep" in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement together 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 excellent American Dream. ...
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