Marlowe has a chance encounter with a not-so-gentle giant outside Florian’s nightclub. Just released from prison, Moose Malloy is looking for his old flame, red-haired Velma Valento, who he last…

Philip 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…

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…

Phillip Marlowe is mixing business with pleasure - getting paid to follow a mysterious and lovely red-head named Eleanor King. And wherever Miss King goes, trouble seems to follow. But…

An encounter with a drunk brings both adventure and trouble to a cynical middle-aged private detective.

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 he wants Velma…

Chandler’s first novel, published in 1939, introduces Philip Marlowe, a 38-year-old P.I. moving through the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s. This classic case involves a paralyzed California…