Creator of the famous Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler elevated the American hardboiled detective genre to an art form. His last four novels, published here in one volume, offer ample opportunity to savour the unique and compelling fictional world that made his works modern classics.The Lady in the Lake moves Marlowe out of his usual habitat of city streets and into the mountains outside Los Angeles in his strange search for a missing woman.The Little Sister takes Marlowe to Hollywood, where he tries to find a sweet young things missing brother, uncovering on the way a little blackmail, a lot of drugs, and more than enough murder. In The Long Goodbye, a case involving a warscarred drunk and his nymphomaniac wife has Marlowe constantly on the move a psychotic gangsters on his trail, hes in trouble with the cops, and more and more corpses keep turning up.Playback features a wellendowed redhead who leads Marlowe to the California coast to solve a tale of big money and, of course, murder. Throughout these masterpieces, Marlowes wry humour and existential sense of his job prove yet again why he has become one of the most recognized and imitated characters in fiction.

Binding: Hardback;1008 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FA; Weight: 994 g; Dimensions: 215 x 141 x 46

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