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OverviewRaymond 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 colourful underworld figures - is the background to a story reflecting all the tarnished glitter of the great American Dream. The detective's iconic image burns just as brightly in Farewell My Lovely, on the trail of a missing nightclub crooner. And the inimitable Marlowe is able to prove that trouble really is his business in Raymond Chandler's brilliant epitaph, The Long Goodbye. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Raymond ChandlerPublisher: Penguin Books Ltd Imprint: Penguin Classics Volume: 742 Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.458kg ISBN: 9780141182612ISBN 10: 014118261 Pages: 672 Publication Date: 03 February 2000 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsA good one in the tough school, in which private detective Marlowe is hired to investigate a blackmailing and finds himself bucking a well-run gang, several murders, and the D A's office. Hard-boiled, fast paced, plenty of action, some sensationalism. Not for conservatives. (Kirkus Reviews) This is the real thing! For a penny under a tenner you not only get The Big Sleep, but also Farewell, My Lovely and The Long Good-Bye, beautifully packaged together. These are the novels that started the PI tradition that is still being enthusiastically written today, and no crime fan should be without a complete set of Chandler on their shelves. (Kirkus UK) Author InformationRaymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, but moved to England with his family when he was twelve, where he attended Dulwich College, alma mater to some of the twentieth century's most renowned writers. Returning to America in 1912, he settled in California, worked in a number of jobs, and later married. It was during the Depression era that he seriously turned his hand to writing, and his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later, when he was fifty, by his first novel, The Big Sleep. Chandler died in 1959, having established himself as the finest crime writer in America. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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