Raymond Chandler
Author
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The first fully annotated edition of Raymond Chandler's 1939 classic The Big Sleep features hundreds of illuminating notes and images alongside the full text of the novel and is an essential addition to any crime fiction fan's library. A masterpiece of noir, Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep helped to define a genre. Today it remains one of the most celebrated and stylish novels of the twentieth century. This comprehensive, annotated edition offers...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1988, c1950
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
Language
English
Description
Prefaced by the famous Atlantic Monthly essay of the same name, in which he argues the virtues of the hard-boiled detective novel, this collection, mostly drawn from stories he wrote for the pulps, demonstrates Chandler's imaginative, entertaining facility with the form.--p. [4] of cover.
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Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1988, c1958
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
Language
English
Description
In Chandler's final novel, Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never heard of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but decides he prefers to help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it.--p. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
1992, c1953
Edition
1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed.
Language
English
Description
Marlowe befriends a down-on-his-luck war veteran with scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he's divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. And now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.--p. [4] of cover.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Two-disc special ed.
Language
English
Description
Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train. Haines doesn't take the plan seriously, however, until his wife is suddenly murdered, and Anthony appears to demand that Haines keep his part of the bargain.
