The Little Sister, Chandler Raymond

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: The Simple Art of Murder
ISBN: 0394757653 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780394757650
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 10390.00 T
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Описание: In The Simple Art of Murder, which was prefaced by the famous Atlantic Monthly essay of the same name, noir master Raymond Chandler argues the virtues of the hard-boiled detective novel, and this collection, mostly drawn from stories he wrote for the pulps, demonstrates Chandler's imaginative, entertaining facility with the form. Included are the classic stories "Spanish Blood," Pearls Are a Nuisance," and "Guns at Cyrano's," among others.

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 4: The Big Sleep
ISBN: 0194791653 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780194791656
Издательство: Oxford University Press
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Описание: Word count 15,960

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: Trouble Is My Business
ISBN: 0140109803 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140109801
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: Playback
ISBN: 0140108971 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140108972
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Phillip Marlowe is mixing business with pleasure - getting paid to follow a mysterious and lovely red-head named Eleanor King. And wherever Miss King goes, trouble seems to follow. But one dead body later and what started out as a lazy afternoon`s snooping soon becomes a deadly cocktail of blackmail, lies, mistaken identity - and murder.

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: Long Goodbye
ISBN: 0140108955 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140108958
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: 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. He`s willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty.

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: Little Sister
ISBN: 0140108963 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140108965
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Her name is Orfamay Quest and she`s come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or least ways that`s what she tells PI Philip Marlowe, offering him a measly twenty bucks for the privilege. But Marlowe`s feeling charitable though it`s not long before he wishes he wasn`t so sweet.

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: Lady in the Lake
ISBN: 0140108947 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140108941
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Derace Kingsley`s wife ran away to Mexico to get a divorce and marry a Chris Lavery. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But when Marlowe encounters Lavery, he`s denying nothing on account of the two bullet holes in his heart.

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: Killer in the rain
ISBN: 0140109005 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140109009
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: It was in the pulp detective magazines of the 1930s that the author`s definitive take on the hard-boiled detective story first appeared. This book features eight of his finest stories including "The Man Who Liked Dogs", "The Lady in the Lake" and "Bay City Blues".

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: High Window
ISBN: 0140108939 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140108934
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Philip Marlowe`s on a case: his client wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband`s collection. It becomes complicated when Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead.

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: Farewell, My Lovely
ISBN: 014010979X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140109795
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 5540.00 T
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Описание: A warm day on Central Avenue, and Philip Marlowe`s hunch about the man beside him is as vague as the heat waves that dance above the sidewalk. Moose Malloy stands six five and one-half and weighs two hundred and sixty-four pounds. After eight years in the pen, he wants little Velma back, and no cops or mobsters are ready to stand in his way.

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: Big sleep
ISBN: 0140108920 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140108927
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood`s two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA`s seedy backstreets, Marlowe`s got his work cut out.

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: Trouble Is My Business
ISBN: 0394757645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780394757643
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 9170.00 T
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Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: Chandler: Stories and Early Novels
ISBN: 1883011078 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781883011079
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 30650.00 T
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Описание: In Raymond Chandler's hands, the pulp crime story became a haunting mystery of power and corruption, set against a modern cityscape both lyrical and violent. Now Chandler joins the authoritative Library of America series in a comprehensive two-volume set displaying all the facets of his brilliant talent.

In his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939), the classic private eye finds his full-fledged form as Philip Marlowe: at once tough, independent, brash, disillusioned, and sensitive--and man of weary honor threading his way (in Chandler's phrase) "down these mean streets" among blackmailers, pornographers, and murderers for hire.

In Farewell, My Lovely (1940), Chandler's personal favorite among his novels, Marlowe's search for a missing woman leads him from shanties and honky-tonks to the highest reaches of power, encountering an array of richly drawn characters. The High Window (1942), about a rare coin that becomes a catalyst by which a hushed-up crime comes back to haunt a wealthy family, is partly a humorous burlesque of pulp fiction. All three novels show Chandler at a peak of verbal inventiveness and storytelling drive

Stories and Early Novels also includes every classic noir story from the 1930s that Chandler did not later incorporate into a novel--thirteen in all, among them such classics as "Red Wind," "Finger Man," The King in Yellow," and "Trouble Is My Business." Drawn from the pages of Black Mask and Dime Detective, these stories show how Chandler adapted the violent conventions of the pulp magazine--with their brisk exposition and rapid-fire dialogue--to his own emerging vision of twentieth-century America.

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings
ISBN: 1883011086 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781883011086
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 30650.00 T
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Описание: With humor, along with an unerring sense of dialogue and the telling details of dress and behavior, Raymond Chandler created a distinctive fictional universe out of the dark side of sunlit Los Angeles. In the process, he transformed both crime writing and the American language.

Written during the war, The Lady in the Lake (1943) takes Philip Marlowe out of the seamy L.A. streets to the deceptive tranquility of the surrounding mountains, as the search for a businessman's missing wife expands into an elegy of loneliness and loss. The darker tone typical of Chandler's later fiction is evident in The Little Sister (1949), in which an ambitious starlet, a blackmailer, and a seemingly naive young woman from Manhattan, Kansas, are the key players in a plot that provides fuel for a bitter indictment of Hollywood and Chandler's most savage portrayal of his adopted city.

The Long Goodbye (1953), his most ambitious and self-revealing novel, uncovers a more anguished resonance in the Marlowe character, in a plot that hinges on the betrayal of friendship and the compromises of middle age. Playback (1958), written originally as a screenplay, is Chandler's seventh and last novel.

A special feature of this volume is Chandler's long-unavailable screenplay for the film noir classic, Double Indemnity (1944), adapted from James M. Cain's novel. Written with director Billy Wilder, it is one of the best screenplays in American cinema, masterful in construction and dialogue. Supplementing the volume, and providing a more personal glimpse of Chandler's personality, is a selection of letters and essays--including "The Simple Art of Murder," in which Chandler muses on his pulp roots and on the special qualities of his hero and style.

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: Farewell, My Lovely
ISBN: 0241954355 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241954355
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 8790.00 T
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Описание: 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.