Raymond Chandler
Writer
July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959
Recommended reading:
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Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels
Anthology by Raymond Chandler.
Edited by Frank MacShane.
Published 1995.
ISBN-10: 1883011078
ISBN-13: 978-1883011079
Contents:
Pulp Stories: Blackmailers Don’t Shoot; Smart-Aleck Kill; Finger Man; Nevada Gas; Spanish Blood; Guns at Cyrano’s; Pick-Up on Noon Street; Goldfish; Red Wind; The King in Yellow; Pearls Are a Nuisance; Trouble Is My Business; I’ll Be Waiting. Novels: The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window. Chronology. Note on the texts. Notes.
Description:
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 the dark side of aunlit Los Angeles. In the process, he transformed both the crime novel and American writing.
Stories and Early Novels includes the first three novels featuring Chandler’s great creation, private eye Philip Marlowe: tough, disillusioned, and sensitive. In The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, and The High Window, Marlowe’s investigations lead him from Los Angeles shanties and honkytonks to the highest reaches of power, encountering a world of gangsters and crooked politicians, lost souls and small-time operators. Thirteen stories from the pulp magazines Black Mask and Dime Detective include such classics as “Red Wind” and “Trouble Is My Business.” This volume, with its companion, Later Novels & Other Writings, comprises the most comprehensive edition available of America’s greatest mystery writer.
The Library of America, a nonprofit publisher, is dedicated to preserving the works of America’s greatest writers in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts.
Credits:
Books to Die For (2012);
Double Indemnity (1944); Farewell, My Lovely (1940); Five Murders (1944); Five
Sinister Characters (1945); Goldfish (1981); Great Law and Order Stories (1990);
Hard-Boiled Detectives (1953); I’ll Be Waiting (2020); Killer in the Rain (1964);
Los Angeles Noir 2 (2010); Mandarin's Jade (1937); No Crimes In The Mountains (1941);
Only to Sleep (2018); Pearls are a Nuisance (1958); Perchance to Dream (1991); Pickup
on Noon Street (1952); Playback (1958); Poodle Springs (1989); Pulp Fiction -
The Dames (2008); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996); Red Wind (1946); Selected
Letters (1981); Smart-Aleck Kill (1953); Spanish Blood (1946); The Best
American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000); The Big Sleep (1939); The
Black-Eyed Blonde (2014); The Blue Dahlia (1976); The Curtain (1936); The
Finger Man (1947); The Goodbye Coast (2022); The High Window (1942); The Lady
in the Lake (1943); The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror (1992); The
Little Sister (1949); The Long Goodbye (1953); The Longman Anthology of
Detective Fiction (2004); The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories (1988); The
Man Who Liked Dogs (1996); The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler (1976); The Oxford
Book of American Detective Stories (1996); The Oxford Book of Detective Stories
(2000); The Second Murderer (2023); The Simple Art of Murder (1950); The Smell
of Fear (1965); The World of Raymond Chandler (2014); Trouble is My Business (1950);
Try The Girl (1937); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing Los Angeles
(2002).
Movies and television:
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