The life of Raymond Chandler has long been obscured by secrets and half-truths as deceptive as anything in his novel "The Long Goodbye." Now, drawing on new interviews, previously unpublished letters, and archives on both sides of the Atlantic, Tom Williams casts a new light on this most mysterious [...]

Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the detective novel. Fredric Jameson offers an interpretation of Chandler'[...]

A major new biography of the writer who, more than any other, has defined modern crime fiction What we know of Raymond Chandler is shrouded in secrets and half-truths as deceptive as anything in his magisterial novel The Long Goodbye. Now, drawing on new interviews, previously unpublished letters an[...]

Now available in Everyman Classics.

This book offers an entertaining and comprehensive assessment of Chandler's turbulent association with Hollywood, both as a screenwriter whose credits included Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia, and Strangers On A Train and as the provider of source material -- his six filmed novels have so far yiel[...]

General Sternwood ist steinalt, steinreich und hat zwei schöne, wilde Töchter. Die aufreizende Carmen wird erpresst, und Privatdetektiv Philip Marlowe soll die Sache aus der Welt schaffen. Auch ihre Schwester, die kühle Vivian, hat etwas zu verbergen. Auf Marlowes Weg häufen sich auf einmal Leic[...]

When Philip Marlowe befriends down-on-his-luck veteran Terry Lennox he gets more than he bargained for. With Lennox's wife dead and Lennox himself on the lam, Marlowe becomes the target for the local cops and a crazy gangster, while getting mixed up with alcoholic writer Roger Wade and his wife Eile[...]

Den lange søvn kommer med essayistiske forord af japanske Haruki Murakami, som er erklæret kæmpefan og stærkt inspireret af Chandler.
Raymond Chandlers berømte noir-krimier om Philip Marlowe; den hårdkogte privatdetektiv, der gør tingene på sin helt egen måde og ikke skyr nogen midler i[...]

Raymond Chandlers berømte noir-krimier om Philip Marlowe; den hårdkogte privatdetektiv, der gør tingene på sin helt egen måde og ikke skyr nogen midler i sin jagt på forbryderne i det mørke og altid regnfulde 1930'ernes Los Angeles. Mord, pengeafpresning, kidnapninger, lyssky forretninger, sn[...]

Det lange farvel kommer med essayistiske forord af japanske Haruki Murakami, som er erklæret kæmpefan og stærkt inspireret af Chandler.
Raymond Chandlers berømte noir-krimier om Philip Marlowe; den hårdkogte privatdetektiv, der gør tingene på sin helt egen måde og ikke skyr nogen midler [...]