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»Oj, vad detta håller. Språket, stämningen, skärpan.« | Jan Gradvall, DI »Med debutromanen Den stora sömnen lyckades Raymond Chandler ge nytt liv åt en hel genre. En milstolpe i deckarens historia.« | Magnus Röhl, Svenska Dagbladet »Smart, välskri...

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»Oj, vad detta håller. Språket, stämningen, skärpan.« | Jan Gradvall, DI »En författare med en ovanlig, och kanske ofrivillig, förmåga att fånga det moderna samhällets alla paradoxer.« | Mattias Hagberg, Göterborgs-Posten »Raymond Chandler är mäst...

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»En av tidernas bästa kriminalförfattare.« | Sunday Times »Raymond Chandler är mästaren« | New York Times Den utblottade, alkoholiserade Terry Lennox har ett problem: Hans miljonärshustru är död och han måste snabbt ta sig ut ur Los Angeles. Så ha...

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Playback is Raymond Chandler's gripping last full-length novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe. 'Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since' Paul Auster Los Angeles PI...

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Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage series For wise-cracking Private Eye Philip Marlowe, murder is all in a day's work... There are no streets meaner than those of L.A.'s underworld - but luckily one detective has more than his ...

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When Raymond Chandler died in 1959, he left behind the first four chapters of a new Philip Marlowe thriller. Now three decades later, Robert B. Parker , the bestselling creator of the Spenser detective novels, has completed Poodle Springs in a ful...

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The only complete collection of shorter fiction by the undisputed master of detective literature, assembled here for the first time in one volume, includes stories unavailable for decades. When Raymond Chandler turned to writing at the age of fort...

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Hard-boiled detective fiction at its best: Raymond Chandler's best loved novel, The Big Sleep, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everythin...

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From the creased pages of 1930s pulp magazines Black Mask and Dime Detective come eight of Raymond Chandler's finest short stories: KILLER IN THE RAIN, THE MAN WHO LIKED DOGS, THE CURTAIN, TRY THE GIRL, MANDARIN'S JADE, BAY CITY BLUES, T...

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»En av tidernas bästa kriminalförfattare.« | Sunday Times »Raymond Chandler uppfann ett nytt sätt att tala om Amerika och Amerika har aldrig varit sig likt sedan dess.« | Paul Auster Derace Kingsleys hustru flydde till Mexico för att ta ut snabb s...

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An omnibus comprising Raymond Chandler's three Philip Marlowe novels, THE LADY IN THE LAKE, THE HIGH WINDOW and THE LITTLE SISTER.

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'I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.' Los Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired b...

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Twenty-five stories, long and short, remind readers again why ChandlerUs characters are among the most alluring and imitated in 20th-century fiction.

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During a period of twenty years—from his start as a young writer for H. L. Mencken's classic pulp magazine The Black Mask in the early 1930s, through the publication of his novels The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely , to his career as a Ho...

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A classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime, The Long Good-Bye is the sixth novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of L...

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since' Paul Auster, author of The New York Trilogy Raymond Chan...

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An omnibus comprising Raymond Chandler's three Philip Marlowe novels, THE LADY IN THE LAKE, THE HIGH WINDOW and THE LITTLE SISTER.

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Farewell, My Lovely is a classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime.Eight years ago Moose Malloy and cute little redhead Velma were getting married - until someone framed Malloy for armed robbery. Now his stretch is up and ...

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Killer in the Rain collects together eight classic short stories by Raymond Chandler.It was in the pulp detective magazines of the 1930s that Raymond Chandler's definitive take on the hard-boiled detective story first appeared. Here then, from the...

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Founder of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction, The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler's most famous and popular novel of allLos Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is...

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A CLASSIC NOVEL BY THE MASTER OF HARD-BOILED CRIME, THE HIGH WINDOW IS RAYMOND CHANDLER'S THIRD STORY FEATURING LACONIC PI PHILIP MARLOWE.'He lay crumpled on his back. Very lonely, very dead. The safe door was wide open. A metal drawer was pulled ...

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'Everything was quiet and sunny and calm. No cause for excitement whatever. It's only Marlowe, finding another body. He does it rather well by now. Murder-a-day Marlowe, they call him . . .'Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired to find a mi...

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The Little Sister is a classic detective novel by the master of hard-boiled crimeHer 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, ...

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since' Paul Auster, author of The New York TrilogyRaymond Chandler was America's preemine...

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Playback is a classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime.Stalking 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 most fam...

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'I pushed her back into the house without saying anything, shut the door. We stood looking at each other inside. She dropped her hand slowly and tried to smile. Then all expression went out of her white face and it looked as intelligent as the bot...

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The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story. David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.

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The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story. David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.

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Trouble is My Business is a collection of four riveting novellas from Raymond Chandler. 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 'go...

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'So you need help. What's your name and trouble?' Private Investigator Philip Marlowe's latest client is Orfamay Quest. She's come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or at least that&apo...

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