Raymond Chandler

¿Serías capaz de resolver un misterioso caso de amenaza de muerte entre la alta sociedad de Hollywood?. Acompaña al detective Philip Marlowe, el detective más célebre del siglo XX, en este complejo caso. El detective Philip Marlowe se enfrenta a un caso que promete ser sencillo: el viejo general Sternwood, paralitico y extremadamente rico, ha recibido una nota de chantaje que concierne a su hija menor, la salvaje Carmen. Recorriendo la ciudad desde su despacho en Hollywood Boulevard hasta las mansiones de los barrios residenciales, Marlowe debera adentrarse en un laberinto de perversidad cada vez mas oscuro. Esta edicion reune tambien los dos relatos pulp, publicados en la revista Black Mask, que Chandler canibalizo para escribir la novela: Asesino bajo la lluvia (1935) y El telon (1936).Reseña:Raymond Chandler invento una nueva forma de hablar sobre Estados Unidos y desde entonces ha logrado transformar nuestra mirada.Paul Auster

La obra cumbre de Raymond Chandler, la mejor novela negra de la historia. Mi mejor libro. Raymond Chandler El veterano de guerra Terry Lennox tiene un problema: su esposa multimillonaria ha sido asesinada -es hija del magnate de la prensa Harlan Potter- y el necesita largarse de Los Angeles cuanto antes. Le pide a Philip Marlowe, con quien ha trabado amistad recientemente, que lo ayude a llegar al aeropuerto de Tijuana. Y asi el detective, fiel a sus ideales, terminara por convertirse en complice del crimen principal en El largo adios (1953), la sexta novela de la serie. Cuando Lennox se suicida en Mexico dejando una confesion de culpabilidad, el caso queda cerrado sin escandalos ni sensacionalismo... aunque hay algo que a Marlowe no le encaja. Esta convencido de la inocencia de Lennox, pero ¿podra demostrarlo? ¿Y cuantas victimas habra antes de conseguirlo?

¿Serías capaz de resolver un misterioso caso de amenaza de muerte entre la alta sociedad de Hollywood?.Acompaña al detective Philip Marlowe, el detective más célebre del siglo XX, en este complejo caso.El detective Philip Marlowe se enfrenta a un caso que promete ser sencillo: el viejo general Sternwood, paralitico y extremadamente rico, ha recibido una nota de chantaje que concierne a su hija menor, la salvaje Carmen.Recorriendo la ciudad desde su despacho en Hollywood Boulevard hasta las mansiones de los barrios residenciales, Marlowe debera adentrarse en un laberinto de perversidad cada vez mas oscuro. Esta edicion reune tambien los dos relatos pulp, publicados en la revista Black Mask, que Chandler canibalizo para escribir la novela: Asesino bajo la lluvia (1935) y El telon (1936).Reseña: Raymond Chandler invento una nueva forma de hablar sobre Estados Unidos y desde entonces ha logrado transformar nuestra mirada. Paul Auster

La obra cumbre de Raymond Chandler, la mejor novela negra de la historia. Mi mejor libro. Raymond Chandler El veterano de guerra Terry Lennox tiene un problema: su esposa multimillonaria ha sido asesinada -es hija del magnate de la prensa Harlan Potter- y el necesita largarse de Los Angeles cuanto antes. Le pide a Philip Marlowe, con quien ha trabado amistad recientemente, que lo ayude a llegar al aeropuerto de Tijuana. Y asi el detective, fiel a sus ideales, terminara por convertirse en complice del crimen principal en El largo adios (1953), la sexta novela de la serie. Cuando Lennox se suicida en Mexico dejando una confesion de culpabilidad, el caso queda cerrado sin escandalos ni sensacionalismo... aunque hay algo que a Marlowe no le encaja. Esta convencido de la inocencia de Lennox, pero ¿podra demostrarlo? ¿Y cuantas victimas habra antes de conseguirlo?

En 1954, a sus 66 años de edad, Raymond Chandler era uno de los escritores de novela criminal más importantes del mundo. Estaba considerado unánimemente un maestro, creador de caminos nuevos para el genero negro, pero tambien uno de los retratistas mas agudos de la sociedad estadounidense. En paises como el Reino Unido, su obra se publicaba al margen de etiquetas, y entre sus seguidores se contaban no pocos reputados criticos del mercado anglosajon a un lado y otro del Atlantico. Acababa de publicar su mejor y mas extensa novela, El largo adios, y, sin embargo, sus ambiciones literarias resultan bastante sorprendentes. En una carta a uno de sus editores, afirmo: "Si quieres saber lo que realmente me gustaria escribir, te dire que historias fantasticas. Y no me refiero a ciencia ficcion. Una docena o asi han estado rondando en mi cabeza durante muchos años, implorando por ser puestas en papel". Este volumen recoge tres historias que ademas del elemento criminal denotan la filiacion del escritor con la escritura fantastica: Verano ingles, melodrama de tintes goticos; El rape del profesor Bingo, vuelta de tuerca sobre el tema del hombre invisible, y La puerta de bronce, que presenta una misteriosa entrada a otro mundo.

A movie starlet with a gangster boyfriend and a pair of siblings with a shared secret lure 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.

Trouble is My Business is a collection of four riveting novellas from Raymond Chandler. In the first of the four cases in Trouble is My Business, 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. Praise for Raymond Chandler: "Chandler's prose flies off the pages like a burst from a Tommy gun. Chandler was perhaps the finest exponent of the fledgling genre now known as pulp fiction". (Scottish Field). "One of the greatest crime writers, who set the standards others still try to attain". (Sunday Times). "Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner...An original...A great artist". (Boston Review). "Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since". (Paul Auster). Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and moved to England with his family when he was twelve. He attended Dulwich College, Alma Mater to some of the twentieth century's most renowned writers. Returning to America in 1912, he settled in California, worked in a number of jobs, and later married. It was during the Depression era that he seriously turned his hand to writing and his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later by his first novel. The Big Sleep introduced the world to Philip Marlowe, the often imitated but never-bettered hard-boiled private investigator. It is in Marlowe's long shadow that every fictional detective must stand - and under the influence of Raymond Chandler's addictive prose that every crime author must write.

To begin with he was another good time drunk in a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith outside the terrace of The Dancers. A little later he turned up as a vagrant on Hollywood Boulevard. For no reason other than curiosity Philip Marlowe came to the rescue. Then he brought Terry Lennox a drink. Which may be why he finds himself driving Lennox to Tijuana on the same night his very rich wife is found with her brains all over the floor. Murderer or no murderer, Terry Lennox is shaping up to cause plenty of trouble. And trouble just happens to be Marlowe's line of work ...

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.Presentado en la carpeta de Marzo 2009. Edicion especial para conmemorar el 50 aniversario de la muerte del autor.

Her name is Orfamay and she''s come all the way from Manhattan to find her missing brother Orrin. Or least ways that''s what she tells PI Marlowe, offering him a measly twenty bucks for the privilege. Orrin''s trail leads Marlowe to luscious movie starlets, uppity gangsters, suspicious cops and corpses with ice picks jammed in their necks. Presentado en la carpeta de Marzo 2009. Edicion especial para conmemorar el 50 aniversario de la muerte del autor.

Derace Kingsley''s wife ran away to Mexico to get a divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. When Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he''s denying nothing.Presentado en la carpeta de Marzo 2009. Edicion especial para conmemorar el 50 aniversario de la muerte del autor.

Contemporary / American English (Available February 2008) Detective Philip Marlowe is looking for Derace Kingsleys wife, Crystal. Is she dead or not? Marlowe finds more than one dead body and learns about women, drugs, men in love, and a police cover-up. Who killed The Lady in the Lake and why?

La première fois que Marlowe vit Terry Lennox, visage jeune et cheveux blancs, il était fin soûl dans une Rolls Royce Silver Wraith. La fille à ses côtés, chevelure d'un magnifique blond vénitien, sourire vague aux lèvres, portait sur les épaules un vison si prestigieux que, près de lui, la Rolls ne semblait plus qu'un tacot de série. Cette amitié spontanée de Marlowe pour cet ancien commando au charisme énigmatique amène le privé à passer des frontières que son métier rendait a priori infranchissables. Terry Lennox n'a pas fini de le surprendre. S'il est innocent des crimes dont on l'accuse, il est aussi le centre d'un jeu mortel où la tragédie triomphe sans égale.

'Chandler grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph A classic Philip Marlowe adventure by Raymond Chandler, author of The Big Sleep and undisputed master of hard-boiled crimeDerace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he's denying nothing - on account of the two bullet holes in his heart. Now Marlowe's on the trail of a killer, who leads him out of smoggy LA all the way to a murky mountain lake . . .'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess

The High Window is a classic novel by the master of hard-boiled crimePhilip 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 collection. That's the simple part. It becomes more complicated when Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead. That's also unlucky for a private investigator, because leaving a trail of corpses around LA gets cops' noses out of joint. If Marlowe doesn't wrap this one up fast, he's going to end up in jail - or worse, in a box in the ground . . .'Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph 'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony BurgessBest-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction. His books include The Big Sleep, The Little Sister, Farewell, My Lovely, The Long Good-bye, The Lady in the Lake, Playback, Killer in the Rain, The High Window and Trouble is My Business.

The Lady in the Lake is a classic detective novel by the master of hard-boiled crime, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.Derace Kingsleys wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, hes denying nothing - on account of the two bullet holes in his heart. Now Marlowes on the trail of a killer, who leads him out of smoggy LA all the way to a murky mountain lake . . .Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence Daily Telegraph One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain Sunday TimesChandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes Anthony Burgess

Marlow is being paid to follow a sad-looking redhead named Eleanor King. Or is she called Betty Mayfield or Mrs Kinsolving? And what is the man with the swift left hook holding over her? Even in a nice little town like Esmerelda there's no shortage of PIs, cops and bellhops to make a case more difficult, and Marlowe's over developed sense of justice is getting him into trouble again. Still, at least there's a blonde with a snooty look and a great pair of legs to take the sting out of things...