About Raymond Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American author of crime stories and novels of immense stylistic influence upon modern crime fiction, especially in the style of the writing and the attitudes now characteristic of the genre. His protagonist, Philip Marlowe, is synonymous with "private detective," along with Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade.
Series
Philip Marlowe
The Big Sleep (1939)
Farewell, My Lovely (1940)
The High Window (1942)
The Lady in the Lake (1943)
The Little Sister (1949)
The Simple Art of Murder (1950)
The Long Goodbye (1953)
Playback (1958)
Poodle Springs (1989) (with Robert B Parker)
The Big Sleep (1939)
Farewell, My Lovely (1940)
The High Window (1942)
The Lady in the Lake (1943)
The Little Sister (1949)
The Simple Art of Murder (1950)
The Long Goodbye (1953)
Playback (1958)
Poodle Springs (1989) (with Robert B Parker)
Omnibus
The Second Raymond Chandler Omnibus
The Raymond Chandler Omnibus (1953)
The Big Sleep / Farewell My Lovely (1995)
The Raymond Chandler Omnibus (1953)
The Big Sleep / Farewell My Lovely (1995)
Collections
Trouble Is My Business (1939)
Five Murders (1944)
Five Sinister Characters (1945)
The Finger Man (1946)
Spanish Blood (1946)
Pearls Are a Nuisance (1953)
Smart-Aleck Kill (1953)
Killer in the Rain (1964)
The Smell of Fear (1965)
The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler (1976)
Five Murders (1944)
Five Sinister Characters (1945)
The Finger Man (1946)
Spanish Blood (1946)
Pearls Are a Nuisance (1953)
Smart-Aleck Kill (1953)
Killer in the Rain (1964)
The Smell of Fear (1965)
The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler (1976)
Non fiction
Short stories
| No Crime in the Mountains (1945) | |||
| The Man Who Liked Dogs (1946) | |||
| Bay City Blues (1953) | |||
| The Curtain (1964) | |||
| Killer in the Rain (1964) | |||
| The Lady in the Lake (1964) | |||
| Mandarin's Jade (1964) | |||
| Try the Girl (1964) | |||
| Goldfish | |||
| Guns at Cyrano's | |||
| I'll Be Waiting | |||
| Red Wind | |||
| Trouble is My Business |
Books about Raymond Chandler
Links to other websites
| The Raymond Chandler website |
Raymond Chandler recommends
Dr Thorndyke's Case Book (1923) (Dr Thorndyke) R Austin Freeman "This man Austin Freeman is a wonderful performer." | Red Harvest (1929) Dashiell Hammett "He was spare, frugal, hard-boiled, but he did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all. He wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before." | James Tarrant, Adventurer (1941) (Inspector French) Freeman Wills Crofts "The soundest builder of them all." |
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