When private detective Philip Marlowe's latest client, Orfamay Quest, hires him to find her missing brother for the paltry sum of twenty dollars,Marlowe discovers that it's far from a simple missing persons case. Not when it involves mobsters,...
Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers o
General Sternwood has four million dollars, and two young daughters, both pretty and both wild. Hes an old, sick man, close to death, but he doesnt like being blackmailed. So he asks private detective Philip Marlowe to get the blackmailer off...
'I need a man good-looking enough to pick up a dame who has a sense of class, but he's got to be tough enough to swap punches with a power shovel.' In the first of the four cases in Trouble Is My Business, LA PI Philip Marlowe is offered a...
'I want you to find my wife,' he said. 'She's been missing for a month.' 'Okay,' I said. 'I'll find your wife.' Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe...
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...
Detective Philip Marlowe is looking for Derace Kingsleyâs wife, Crystal. Is she dead or not? Marlowe finds more than one dead body and learns about women, drugs, men in love, and a police cover-up. Who killed The Lady in the Lake and...
The High Window is a classic novel by the master of hard-boiled crimePhilip Marlowe's on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection....
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 being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe...