During a period of twenty years—from his start as a young writer for H. L. Mencken’s classic pulp magazine The Black Mask in the early 1930s, through the publication of his novels The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely, to his career as a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1940s—Raymond Chandler kept a series of private notebooks.
Drawn from those journals, The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler offers an intimate view of the writer at work, revealing early ideas, descriptions, and anecdotes that would later be used in The Long Goodbye, The Blue Dahlia, and other classics.
Filled with both public and private writings, The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler includes “Marlowesque” particulars such as pickpocket lingo, San Quentin jailhouse slang, a “Note on the Tommygun,” and musings on “Craps.” Here, too, are surprising, lesser known essays on Hollywood, the mystery story, British and American writing, and a wicked parody of Hemingway. This sampler—by turns whimsical, provocative, irreverent, and fascinating—also contains a list of possible story titles; “Chandlerisms;” and his short work “English Summer: A Gothic Romance,” which the writer viewed as a turning point in his career.

The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler

Literature & Fiction

Chandler,Raymond

United States

Ecco

Balentine Special Book Club Edition, PB BookFirst Special printing 1975 tight clean PB 246 unmarked pgs uncreased cvrs ITC Production Picture cover with actress actor ft cvr picture.

Farewell, My Lovely (featuring Philip Marlowe)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Penguin

Trouble is My Business is a collection of four riveting novellas from Raymond Chandler. In the first of the four cases 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 long Marlowe’s up to his neck in corpses and cops and he’s taken pity on the girl. There’s nothing like making trouble of your business . . . The four novellas collected here are quintessential Raymond Chandler: slick, crystal-clear writing that pins the reader to the seat and won’t let go until the last page is turned.

Trouble is My Business

Literary

Penguin Putnam~trade

Penguin 1977 edition paperback, vg++ film cover In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Pearls are a Nuisance

Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. He's willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe finds himself drawn into a sordid crowd of adulterers and alcoholics in LA's Idle Valley, where the rich are suffering one big suntanned hangover. Marlowe is sure Lennox didn't kill his wife, but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth!

The Long Goodbye

Classics

Playback

Stalking the tawdry neon wilderness of forties and fifties Los Angeles, Raymond Chandler's hard-drinking, wise-cracking Phillip Marlowe is one of the world's most famous fictional detectives. `Playback' finds Marlowe 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 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...

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The Big Sleep

Harpercollins

Long Goodbye, the P R 6 (Penguin Readers Simplified Text) (Spanish Edition)

PENGUIN U.S.A.

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 back pi philip marlowe meets malloy one hot day in hollywood and, out of the generosity of his jaded heart, agrees to help him dragged from one smoky bar to another, marlowes search for velma turns up plenty of dangerous gangsters with a nasty habit of shooting first and talking later and soon what started as a search for a missing person becomes a matter of life and death about author: about the author born in chicago but raised in england, where he studied the classics, raymond chandler had early jobs as a reporter for english newspapers he also worked as an accountant, bookkeeper, and auditor but his first love was writing, and from 1933 to his death, chandler was a professional writer in addition to novels and short stories, chandler wrote screenplays he won two academy awards, for double indemnity (1944) and the blue dahlia (1946) urban americas darker side fascinated chandler as a place where the promise of america has gone wrong, corrupted by greed, money, and power into this setting chandler places detective philip marlowe, a disillusioned idealist made cynical by what he sees on the streets of los angeles chandler is said to demonstrate the imaginative possibilities of the detective story as he transforms the genre from formulaic puzzlement to cultural inquiry

Farewell, My Lovely

BALLANTINE BO0KS

The Big Sleep: Bill Amberg for Penguin Classics (Penguin Classics Bill Amberg)

Penguin Classics

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