Raymond Chandler never wrote a memoir or autobiography. The closest he came to writing either was in--and around--his novels, shorts stories, and letters. There have been books that describe and evaluate Chandler's life, but to find out what he himself felt about his life and work, Barry Day, editor[...]

On 14 CD's. A box set collection of eight BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of Raymond Chandler's classic novels, featuring private investigator Philip Marlowe.[...]

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 sunlit Los Angel[...]

In the first of the four cases in "Trouble is My Business", LA PI Philip Marlowe is offered a job that leaves a bad taste in the mouth: smearing a girl who's 'got her hooks into a rich man's pup'. Before too long Marlowe's up to his neck in corpses and cops and he's taken pity on the girl. There's n[...]

An omnibus comprising Raymond Chandler's three Philip Marlowe novels, "The Lady in the Lake", "The High Window" and "The Little Sister".[...]

General Sternwood has four million dollars, and two young daughters, both pretty and both wild. He's an old, sick man, close to death, but he doesn't like being blackmailed. So he asks private detective Philip Marlowe to get the blackmailer off his back. Marlowe knows the dark side of life in Los An[...]

"The Little Sister" is a classic detective novel by the master of hard-boiled crime. Her name is Orfamay Quest and she's come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or leastways that's what she tells PI Philip Marlowe, offering him a measly twenty bucks for the privil[...]

The Long Good-bye is a classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime. Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. He's willing t[...]

"The Big Sleep" is Raymond Chandler's most famous and popular novel of all Los Angeles. PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Ster[...]

"The Lady in the Lake" is a classic detective novel by the master of hard-boiled crime. Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about [...]

A complete collection of short fiction by the creator of Philip Marlowe includes stories from two prior anthologies--Trouble Is My Business and The Simple Art of Murder--as well as "Blackmailers Don't Shoot," "The Pencil," "English Summer," and more. 35,000 first printing.[...]

Hardboiled Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe marks his return in Chandler's four later novels--The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, and Playback--in an action-packed mystery omnibus. 15,000 first printing.[...]