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What We Did: A twisty, chilling and unpredictable suspense thriller
by Natalie ChandlerONE SMALL SCRATCH AND THE SECRETS WILL COME POURING OUT . . . Jenna has spent the last twenty-five years trying to forget what happened to her as a teenager. Trying to forget what they did. But it has always been there - the mistake the four friends made. Now it has taken another life, Jenna has the opportunity to make amends. But if she comes forward now, the truth could shatter her marriage, her family and the friendships she's held onto all these years. And what if she's about to make the biggest mistake of all?Addictive, chilling and twisting, WHAT WE DID is the brand-new psychological suspense from bestselling author of BELIEVE ME NOT. For fans of LUCKIEST GIRL ALIVE, THE LYING GAME and THE PROMISE. _______'An impressive debut with an original premise. I found it utterly compelling'EMILY FREUD'A gripping, frightening, knotty mystery'ELLE CONNEL'The unfolding twists kept me on the edge until the end'STACEY THOMAS(P) 2023 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
Adios, muñeca (Philip Marlowe #Volumen 2)
by Raymond ChandlerLa que muchos críticos consideran la mejor novela de Raymond Chandler. Adiós, muñeca (1940), considerada por muchos la mejor obra de Raymond Chandler, es su segunda novela. El detective Philip Marlowe emprende la búsqueda apasionada de una cantante pelirroja, se ve envuelto en la escena de un crimen y debe desenredar un turbio asunto de deudas de juego. No tardará en descubrir que la costumbre de quienes lo rodean es disparar primero y preguntar después. Esta edición reúne también los tres relatos pulp, publicados en las revistas Black Mask y Dime Detective, que Chandler canibalizó para escribir la novela: El hombre que amaba a los perros(1936), Busquen a la chica (1937) y El jade del mandarín(1937). Reseña:«He leído con suma satisfacción Adiós, muñeca ... Es poco habitual encontrar a alguien con el don de contar historias, pero Raymond Chandler lo posee.»Edmund Wilson
The Annotated Big Sleep
by Raymond ChandlerThe first fully annotated edition of Raymond Chandler&’s 1939 classic The Big Sleep features hundreds of illuminating notes and images alongside the full text of the novel and is an essential addition to any crime fiction fan&’s library. A masterpiece of noir, Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep helped to define a genre. Today it remains one of the most celebrated and stylish novels of the twentieth century. This comprehensive, annotated edition offers a fascinating look behind the scenes of the novel, bringing the gritty and seductive world of Chandler's iconic private eye Philip Marlowe to life. The Annotated Big Sleep solidifies the novel&’s position as one of the great works of American fiction and will surprise and enthrall Chandler&’s biggest fans. Including: -Personal letters and source texts -The historical context of Chandler&’s Los Angeles, including maps and images -Film stills and art from the early pulps -An analysis of class, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in the novel
The Big Sleep
by Raymond ChandlerThe first Philip Marlowe novel, and one of the most iconic detective stories ever written. Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by General Sternwood to investigate the blackmailing of his daughter, Carmen. He is able to track down what appears to be the culprit, but quickly realizes that things are much more complicated than they appear. The Big Sleep has been adapted into film twice, with Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum playing Marlowe. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
The Big Sleep: A Novel (Sparknotes Literature Guide Series)
by Raymond ChandlerThe renowned novel from the crime fiction master, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe. • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.&“Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.&” —The New York Times Book Review
The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely
by Raymond ChandlerThese two classic novels featuring private eye Philip Marlowe made Raymond Chandler's name synonymous with America's hard-boiled school of crime fiction. The Big Sleep was an instant success when first published in 1939. It centers around a paralyzed California millionaire with two psychopathic daughters; he involves Marlowe in a case of blackmail that turns into murder.Farewell My Lovely, which Chandler regarded as his finest work, came out the following year. It has Marlowe dealing with the Los Angeles gambling circuit, a murder he stumbles upon, and three very beautiful but potentially deadly women."Chandler writes like a slumming angel and invests the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence," said Ross Macdonald. And George V. Higgins wrote: "Chandler is fun to read. He's as bleak as tundra, and his dirtbag characters far outnumber his stellar citizens, but Philip Marlowe is a laconic tour guide through a zoo of truly interesting animals."From the Hardcover edition.
The Collected Raymond Chandler
by Raymond ChandlerRaymond Chandler is one of the most significant mystery authors in the history of the genre, helping to create hard-boiled detective fiction, and giving readers the iconic Philip Marlowe. This collection contains all 25 of his short stories, including classics such as The Curtain and The King in Yellow, as well as all seven of his novels, including The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
Collected Stories
by Raymond ChandlerThe only complete edition of stories by the undisputed master of detective literature, collected here for the first time in one volume, including some stories that have been unavailable for decades. When Raymond Chandler turned to writing at the age of forty-five, he began by publishing stories in pulp magazines such as "Black Mask" before later writing his famous novels. These stories are where Chandler honed his art and developed his uniquely vivid underworld, peopled with good cops and bad cops, informers and extortionists, lethally predatory blondes and redheads, and crime, sex, gambling, and alcohol in abundance. In addition to his classic hard-boiled stories-in which his signature atmosphere of depravity and violence swirls around the cool, intuitive loners whose type culminated in the famous detective Philip Marlowe-Chandler also turned his hand to fantasy and even a gothic romance. This rich treasury of twenty-five stories shows Chandler developing the terse, laconic, understated style that would serve him so well in his later masterpieces, and immerses the reader in the richly realized fictional universe that has become an enduring part of our literary landscape
Farewell, My Lovely
by Raymond ChandlerIn his second novel appearance, private investigator Philip Marlowe has to juggle the case of a missing necklace, and the case of a dead nightclub owner, and to try and discover how the two crimes are connected. It has been adapted for film twice, with Robert Mitchum and Dick Powell as Marlowe, and the plot was used for the film The Falcon Takes Over. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
Farewell, My Lovely: A Novel
by Raymond ChandlerThe renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.Philip Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.
Goldfish: From Trouble Is My Business (A Vintage Short)
by Raymond ChandlerIn this short story from Raymond Chandler&’s Trouble is My Business, the iconic private eye, Philip Marlowe, takes up the case of the Leander Pearls. Stolen decades ago, the thief was caught but the pearls themselves were never recovered. With the $25,000 reward still on the table, Marlowe&’s on the case, but he soon realizes he&’s not the only one. A quintessential work of detective fiction, Goldfish is a classic Marlowe caper, filled with twists, turns, and double-crosses. A Vintage Short.
The High Window
by Raymond ChandlerIn his third novel appearance, private investigator Philip Marlowe is hired to retrieve a rare coin that has gone missing, but as the bodies start piling up around him he realizes that he has become enmeshed in a web of lies and blackmail. It has been filmed twice, first as Time to Kill, and then as The Brasher Doubloon.
The High Window: A Novel (Popular Penguins Ser. #3)
by Raymond ChandlerThe renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortune—the elements don't quite add up until Marlowe discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and the worst kind of human exploitation. "Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude." Erle Stanley Gardner "Raymond Chandler has given us a detective who is hard-boiled enough to be convincing . . . and that is no mean achievement." --The New York Times
La historia de Poodle Springs
by Raymond ChandlerCuando Raymond Chandler falleció en 1959 había dejado escritos los primeros capítulos de la que iba a ser la última historia de Philip Marlowe. Treinta años más tarde, el libro se publicó terminado gracias al trabajo de quien es considerado su mejor heredero: Robert B. Parker. Marlowe ha caído en una de las más extrañas situaciones de su vida, el matrimonio. El solitario detective se ha casado con una rica heredera y vive en la elegante Poodle Springs. Pero el lujo no consigue hacer mella en el cinismo de Marlowe ni en su vocación problemática. Pronto descubre el lado oscuro de Poodle Springs, donde la codicia, la lujuria y la desesperación llevan a hombres y mujeres a vivir vidas secretas, e incluso, al asesinato. Robert B. Parker dijo...«Chandler parece haber creado un héroe americano definitivo: espabilado, esperanzado, atento, aventurero, sentimental, cínico y rebelde.»
The Lady in the Lake
by Raymond ChandlerIn his fourth novel appearance, private investigator Philip Marlowe is hired to find a businessman’s estranged wife, but instead finds a series of dead bodies and crooked cops. Although Chandler himself adapted the novel into a screenplay, it has never been used. The novel was filmed by Robert Montgomery, using a different, shorter script.
The Lady in the Lake: A Novel (Penguin Joint Venture Readers Ser. #Vol. 2)
by Raymond ChandlerThe renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.In The Lady in the Lake, hardboiled crime fiction master Raymond Chandler brings us the story of a couple of missing wives—one a rich man's and one a poor man's—who have become the objects of Philip Marlowe's investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be dead. Marlowe's not sure he cares about either one, but he's not paid to care.
El lápiz (Philip Marlowe #Volumen 0)
by Raymond ChandlerEl último relato corto de Raymond Chandler destila violencia, lirismo y desesperación. Cuando la mafia tiene asuntos pendientes con alguien apunta su nombre en una lista negra y lo tacha con un lápiz; significa que pronto estará muerto. No se trata de una cruel y sangrienta venganza, sino de una forma como otra cualquiera de llevar su «contabilidad». A Ikky Rosenstein, un matón de Las Vegas hastiado de este estilo de vida, le han enviado lápiz. Sin saber a quién acudir, se presenta al despacho de Philip Marlowe implorándole que salve su vida. Con la ayuda de Anne Riordan, una mujer atormentada que no se cansa de esperar a que el detective se fije en ella, Marlowe localiza a los matones que persiguen a Rosenstein. Pero conseguir sacarlo de la ciudad será más difícil de lo que imaginaba. Marlowe no es consciente del peligro que corre hasta que él mismo recibe una caja con un lápiz afilado dentro... Reseña:«Hace cincuenta años que murió Raymond Chandler, pero nos queda Philip Marlowe, el héroe que más ha contribuido al éxito de la novela negra.»Le Monde
El largo adiós (Philip Marlowe #Volumen 6)
by Raymond ChandlerEl veterano de guerra Terry Lennox tiene un problema: su esposa multimillonaria ha sido asesinada -es hija del magnate de la prensa Harlan Potter- y él necesita largarse de Los Ángeles cuanto antes. Le pide a Philip Marlowe, con quien ha trabado amistad recientemente, que lo ayude a llegar al aeropuerto de Tijuana. Y así el detective, fiel a sus ideales, terminará por convertirse en cómplice del crimen principal en El largo adiós (1953), la sexta novela de la serie. Cuando Lennox se suicida en México dejando una confesión de culpabilidad, el caso queda cerrado sin escándalos ni sensacionalismo... aunque hay algo que a Marlowe no le encaja. Está convencido de la inocencia de Lennox, pero ¿podrá demostrarlo? ¿Y cuántas víctimas habrá antes de conseguirlo?«Mi mejor libro.»Raymond Chandler
The Little Sister
by Raymond ChandlerIn his fourth novel appearance, private investigator Philip Marlowe is hired to track down a seemingly naive young woman's missing brother, but finds that the brother was caught up in a web of organized crime and murder - and now Marlowe is caught in the same web. <P> <P> It was adapted into the film Marlowe, starring James Garner. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
The Little Sister: A Novel
by Raymond ChandlerThe renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Little Sister, a movie starlet with a gangster boyfriend and a pair of siblings with a shared secret lure private eye Philip Marlowe into the less than glamorous and more than a little dangerous world of Hollywood fame. Chandler's first foray into the industry that dominates the company town that is Los Angeles.
The Long Goodbye: A Novel (A\philip Marlowe Novel Ser. #6)
by Raymond ChandlerONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. And now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.
The Midnight
by Raymond ChandlerThe Midnight Raymond Chandler, 4 stories and two novels by the creator of Philip Marlowe and the author of The Big Sleep. Includes his first and last published stories.
Nunca soñaron con la posteridad: Relatos completos
by Raymond ChandlerTodos los relatos de Raymond Chandler en un solo volumen. Las veintiséis narraciones que componen este volumen dan cuenta de los grandes personajes que surgieron de la pluma de Raymond Chandler, a veces fagocitados por la sombra del propio Marlowe, pues algunos editores decidieron cambiar indebidamente el nombre de los héroes por el del famoso detective privado. Para esta edición, hemos recuperado las identidades originales que salieron de la mente de autor, ofreciendo de este modo una panorámica total de su amplio espectro creativo. Por esa misma razón, el libro incorpora sus incursiones en otros subgéneros como el relato fantástico, el literario y la novela gótica. Se suman así veintiséis relatos que son veintiséis puertas de entrada perfectas para un universo donde el misterio y la crudeza, pero también el genio y la agudeza, pasean de la mano. Paul Auster dijo...«Chandler inventó una nueva forma de hablar sobre Estados Unidos, y desde entonces ha logrado transformar nuestra mirada.»
Playback
by Raymond Chandler'I know it sounds corny, but I could drill you and get away with it. I really could. ' 'Okay,' I said thickly, 'For fifty bucks a day I don't get shot. That costs seventy-five. ' PI Philip Marlowe is mixing a little business with pleasure - he's getting paid to follow a mysterious and lovely redhead called Eleanor King. And wherever Miss King goes, trouble seems to follow. But she's easy on the eye and Marlowe's happy to do as he's told, all in the name of chivalry, of course. But one dead body later and what started out as a lazy afternoon's snooping soon becomes a deadly cocktail of blackmail, lies, mistaken identity - and murder . . . 'Raymond chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since'Paul Auster
Playback: A Novel (A\philip Marlowe Novel Ser. #7)
by Raymond ChandlerThe renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.In noir master Raymond Chandler's Playback, Philip Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never heard of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but then decides he'd rather help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it. "Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence:" -- Ross Macdonald