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The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler's first novel, published in 1939, introduces us to Philip Marlowe, a thirty-eight-old private detective moving through the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s. The case involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder.
Year: 1939
Genre: Extortion, Hardboiled Detective, Mystery, Private Eye
Trouble Is My Business
by Raymond Chandler
TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS is a collection of four stories, all of them classic Philip Marlowe Mysteries.
Year: 1939
Genre: Hardboiled Detective
Farewell, My Lovely
by Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler's classic novel has Philip Marlowe dealing with the Los Angeles gambling circuit, a murder he stumbles upon, and three very beautiful but potentially deadly women.
Year: 1940
Genre: Hardboiled Detective
The High Window
by Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler's gripping novel is set in the California underworld, where Philip Marlow searches for a priceless gold coin and finds himself deep in the tangled affairs of a dead coin collector.
Year: 1942
Genre: Extortion, Hardboiled Detective
The Lady in the Lake
by Raymond Chandler
In The Lady in the Lake, Philip Marlow moves out of his usual habitat of city streets into the mountains outside of Los Angeles in his strange search for a missing woman.
Year: 1943
Genre: Hardboiled Detective, Missing Person
The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler's ingenious novel finds Marlowe constantly on the move with a case involving a war-scarred drunk and his nymphomaniac wife. A psychotic gangster's on his trail; he's in trouble with the cops; and an unequaled number of corpses turn up
Year: 1953
Genre: Hardboiled Detective
Poodle Springs
by Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker
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 full-length masterpiece of criminal passion.
Year: 1989
Genre: Hardboiled Detective
Titles
| Want It | Got It | Read It | Year | Title | |||||||
 | | | 1939 | The Big Sleep | by Raymond Chandler | Extortion, Hardboiled Detective, Mystery, Private Eye, Philip Marlowe | |||||
| | | 1939 | Trouble Is My Business | by Raymond Chandler | Hardboiled Detective, Philip Marlowe, Short Stories | |||||
| | | 1940 | Farewell, My Lovely | by Raymond Chandler | Hardboiled Detective, Philip Marlowe | |||||
| | | 1942 | The High Window | by Raymond Chandler | Extortion, Hardboiled Detective, Philip Marlowe | |||||
| | | 1943 | The Lady in the Lake | by Raymond Chandler | Hardboiled Detective, Missing Person, Philip Marlowe | |||||
| | | 1953 | The Long Goodbye | by Raymond Chandler | Hardboiled Detective, Philip Marlowe | |||||
| | | 1989 | Poodle Springs | by Raymond Chandler | Hardboiled Detective, Philip Marlowe | |||||
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