Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesFor wise-cracking Private Eye Philip Marlowe,murder is all in a day's work...There are no streets meaner than those of L.A.'s underworld - but luckily one detective has more than his fair share of street smarts. Here,in the first two novels featuring the immortal creation Philip Marlowe,we see the cynical sleuth taking on a nasty case of blackmail involving a Californian millionaire and his two devil-may-care daughters; then dealing with a missing nightclub crooner (plus several gangsters with a habit of shooting first and talking later).
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241654149Number of pages: 512Weight: 351 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 22 mm
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Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America,and America has never looked the same to us since.One of the greatest crime writers,who set standards that others still try to attain.
Raymond Chandler
An Anglo-American crime writer whose work transcended the traditional boundaries of the genre,Raymond Chandler was one of the great prose stylists of the 20th century. He was the archetypal author of the'hard-boiled'school of crime writing and created the iconic private eye Philip Marlowe.
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