Raymond Chandler
Author
Series
Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
The 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.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome...
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome...
Author
Series
Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
Philip Marlowe, L.A.'s toughest private eye, ventures away from the city's mean streets, to search the mountains outside Los Angeles for a missing woman and unravels a tangled web of murder and deception
Author
Series
Library of America volume 79
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Books USA
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
1,199 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 80
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Books USA
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
1,076 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
Philip Marlowe navigates the underworld of the Los Angeles gambling circuit while investigating the disappearance of a beautiful nightclub girl. Written at the height of the author's creative career, this novel, with its crooked cops, ex-cons and deadly, seductive women, is a masterpiece of the genre Chandler is credited with creating. Farewell, My Lovely is Raymond Chandler's second novel featuring his archetypal private eye.
Author
Series
Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Isis
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
351 p. (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Marlowe, against his better judgment, accepts two missing person cases, the first a daughter of a faded, tyrannical Hollywood starlet, and the second, a British child stolen from his mother by his father. At the center of The Goodbye Coast is Marlowe's troubled and confounding relationship with his father, a son who despises yet respects his dad, and a dad who's unable to hide his bitter disappointment with his grown boy"--
Author
Series
Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Curley Large Print
Pub. Date
1993, c1949
Physical Desc
292 p. (large print) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Chandler's 5th novel has Philip Marlowe going to Hollywood as he explores the underworld of glitter capital, trying to find a sweet young thing's missing brother.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 257
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 1,299 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
16) The long goodbye
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2002, c1973
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
When an old friend asks private investigator Philip Marlowe for help, he sets out to solve the mystery behind a man accused of murdering his wife.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Has Philip Marlowe finally met his match? It's early fall when a heatwave descends on Los Angeles. Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate, an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy socialite Chrissie Montgomery is missing. Young, naïve, and set to inherit an enormous fortune, she's a walking target, ripe for someone to get their claws into. Her dying father and his sultry bottle-blonde girlfriend...
19) The big sleep
Publisher
Turner Entertainment and Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min. + 116 min.) : Dolby digital sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired to protect General Sternwood's young daughter from her indiscretions, and finds, several murders later, that he has fallen in love with her elder sister
Language
English
Description
Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train