Raymond Chandler : collected stories / Raymond Chandler ; with an introduction by John Bayley.
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TextSeries: Everyman's library ; 257Publication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2002.Description: xxxvii, 1299 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0375415009
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Main Library | Mystery | Chandler, Raymond | Available | 33111003648868 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The only complete edition of stories by the undisputed master of detective literature, collected here for the first time in one volume, including some stories that have been unavailable for decades.
When Raymond Chandler turned to writing at the age of forty-five, he began by publishing stories in pulp magazines such as "Black Mask" before later writing his famous novels. These stories are where Chandler honed his art and developed his uniquely vivid underworld, peopled with good cops and bad cops, informers and extortionists, lethally predatory blondes and redheads, and crime, sex, gambling, and alcohol in abundance. In addition to his classic hard-boiled stories-in which his signature atmosphere of depravity and violence swirls around the cool, intuitive loners whose type culminated in the famous detective Philip Marlowe-Chandler also turned his hand to fantasy and even a gothic romance.
This rich treasury of twenty-five stories shows Chandler developing the terse, laconic, understated style that would serve him so well in his later masterpieces, and immerses the reader in the richly realized fictional universe that has become an enduring part of our literary landscape
"All of Chandler's short fiction in one volume for the first time"--Cover.
Includes selected bibliographical references (p. xxiv-xxv) and chronology (p. xxvi- xxxvii).
Blackmailers don't shoot -- Smart-aleck kill -- Finger man -- Killer in the rain -- Nevada gas -- Spanish blood -- Guns at Cyrano's -- The man who like dogs -- Pickup on Noon Street -- Goldfish -- The curtain -- Try the girl -- Mandarin's jade -- Red wind -- The king in yellow -- Bay City blues -- The lady in the lake -- Pearls are a nuisance -- Trouble is my business -- I'll be waiting -- The bronze door -- No crime in the mountains -- Professor Bingo's snuff -- The pencil -- English summer.