Raymond Chandler turned to writing at the age of forty-five, he began by publishing in pulp magazines such as Black Mask before later writing his famous novels. In these stories…

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…

Born in Nabraska of Irish Quaker parents, educated at Dulwich College, and in the ‘mean streets’ of Los Angeles about which he wrote, Raymond Chandler - writer, oil executive, poet…

The author of such works as The Big Sleep (1939), Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Lady in the Lake (1943), and The Long Goodbye (1953), Raymond Chandler was one of…

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 1,0, Freie Universitat Berlin (John-F.-Kennedy-Institut fur Nordamerikastudien), Veranstaltung: Coolness, 15 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Hauptseminarsarbeit…

Although much has been written about Raymond Chandler, his life’s story has never been told comprehensively in his own words–until now. Barry Day has cannily, deftly selected quotations from Chandler’s…

This reader is accompanied with a CD that contains the full audio of the text in MP3 format. Detective Philip Marlowe is looking for Derace Kingsley’s wife, Crystal. Did she…

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…