Raymond Chandler

PHILIP MARLOWE: EL DETECTIVE PRIVADO POR ANTONOMASIA Y EL PERSONAJE MÁS IMPORTANTE DEL GÉNERO NEGRO. Todo Marlowe rinde homenaje al investigador privado más duro y cínico que ha existido reuniendo las siete novelas completas protagonizadas por el y, ademas, los dos relatos breves en los que hizo su primera y ultima aparicion. Raymond Chandler creo una figura que levita a medio camino entre el culto y el mito. MARTIN AMIS Incluso ahora, mi ideal para la escritura de ficcion es meter a Dostoievski y a Chandler en un solo libro. Ese es mi objetivo. HARUKI MURAKAMI

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?

Amor, pasión, celos... muerte. El perspicaz detective Philip Marlowe debe tirar del hilo de una maraña seria y salvaje. En La dama del lago (1943), la cuarta novela de Raymond Chandler, el detective Philip Marlowe investiga la desaparicion de dos mujeres: Crystal Kingsley, esposa de un rico empresario, y Muriel Chess, mujer del vigilante de la finca de los Kingsley en el lago Little Fawn. En realidad a Marlowe no le importa lo que les haya ocurrido -no le pagan por su empatia-, pero descubrir la verdad sera un imperativo cuando se de cuenta de que su vida esta en juego. Esta edicion incluye tambien los tres relatos pulp publicados en las revistas Dime Detective y Detective Story que Chandler canibalizo para escribir la novela: Blues de Bay City (1938), La dama del lago (1939) y No hay crimenes en las montañas (1941).Reseña:Sus libros deberian leerse y juzgarse no como literatura de evasion, sino como grandes obras de arte. W. H. Auden

Un terrible secreto desvelará la cara siniestra del Hollywood de los años cuarenta. «Nadie se pareció nunca menos a lady Macbeth», piensa Philip Marlowe cuando Orfamay Quest, una joven de Kansas menu

Cuarta novela publicada por Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), “La dama del lago” (1943) fue una de sus obras de mayor éxito de público. Situada de forma estrictamente contemporánea, durante la Segunda Gu

Obra de madurez de Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), “El largo adiós” (1953) discurre a través de una compleja trama que se urde en torno a Terry Lennox –millonario consorte y veterano de guerra con el q

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 Marlow meets Malloy one hot day in Hollywood and, out of the generosity of his jaded heart, agrees to help him.

When General Sternwood has a problem, he hires private detective Phillip Marlowe. Marlowe's job starts with blackmail but takes him into a world of even more serious crimes. He soon finds the first dead body - and it is not the last. How many people will die before the job is done?

Killer in the Rain collects together eight classic short stories by Raymond Chandler. It was in the pulp detective magazines of the 1930s that Raymond Chandler s definitive take on the hard-boiled detective story first appeared. Here then, from the well-thumbed pages of Black Mask and Dime Detective Magazine , are eight of his finest stories including The Man Who Liked Dogs , The Lady in the Lake and Bay City Blues . Sharper than a hoodlum s switchblade, more exciting than an unexpected red-head and stronger than a double shot of whisky, they are packed full of the punchy poetry and laconic wit that makes Chandler the undisputed master of his genre.

Nel genere noir c'è un prima e un dopo Raymond Chandler. O, per meglio dire, non ci sarebbe il noir senza Raymond Chandler, indiscusso "fondatore" del genere. Il suo mondo di pistole, sigarette, bar fumosi, marciapiedi umidi di pioggia, dark lady e duri con l'impermeabile si è impresso per sempre nella memoria collettiva. Rafforzato da una scrittura secca, potente come una fucilata, attenta come un'amante. I suoi racconti, nessuno escluso, sono autentici gioielli narrativi.

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. Hes willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty.

"Quattro racconti (""Giada cinese"", ""La donna del lago"", ""In montagna non c''e pace"" e, appunto, ""Blues di Bay City"") degli otto (gli altri sono raccolti in ""L''uomo a cui piacevano i cani""), composti tra il 1935 e il 1941 di cui Raymond Chandler era gelosissimo: non li volle pubblicare in vita e uscirono postumi, nel 1964. Costituivano per lo scrittore una fonte segreta a cui attingere idee per scrivere uno dei suoi romanzi. Ne cavava ora un personaggio, ora un episodio, ora una descrizione. Vi si trova anche un antesignano del celebre investigatore privato Philip Marlowe: un detective di nome Johnny Dalmas, ma si tratta gia dell''""uomo nato per l''avventura"", animato dal desiderio di portare a termine un''opera ""appassionatamente morale"". "

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.

It was in the pulp detective magazines of the 1930s that Raymond Chandler's definitive take on the hard-boiled detective story first appeared. Here then, from the pages of the Black Mask and Dime Detective Magazine, are eight of his finest stories. Sharper than a hoodlum's switchblade, more exciting than an unexpected red-head and stronger than a double shot of whiskey, they are packed full of the punchy poetry and laconic wit that makes Chandler the undisputed master of his genre.