Raymond Chandler

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1) The long goodbye

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Chandler, Raymond

Series

Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 6
BBC radio collection
Vintage crime

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"Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he 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."--publisher's website.

2) The Raymond Chandler omnibus: four famous classics

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Chandler, Raymond

3) Trouble is my business

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Chandler, Raymond

Series

Vintage crime/Black Lizard

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A private detective is hired to break up an unsuitable romance, find a missing dog, solve a murder, search for an ex-con's lost girlfriend, ransom a necklace, and investigate a wife's mysterious disappearance.

4) Collected stories

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Chandler, Raymond

Series

Everyman's library volume no. 257

5) Poodle Springs

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Chandler, Raymond

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Marlowe is back, and he's married to a rich, beautiful society lady who wants him to settle down in the posh desert community of Poodle Springs. Marlowe may have married rich, but old habits die hard: he's hired to recover a gambling debt and soon finds himself in a case involving bigamy, pornography and murder.

6) The second murderer

Author

Mina, Denise

Series

Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 11
Philip Marlowe novel

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"Has Philip Marlowe finally met his match? It’s early fall when a heatwave descends on Los Angeles. Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate, an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy socialite Chrissie Montgomery is missing. Young, naïve, and set to inherit an enormous fortune, she’s a walking target, ripe for someone to get their claws into. Her dying father and his sultry bottle-blonde...

7) Stories and early novels

Author

Chandler, Raymond

Series

Library of America volume 79

8) The long goodbye

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Philip Marlowe is an unromanticized snoop for hire in an unromanticized LA. Working for fifty bucks a day plus expenses, he tries to solve a case the police dismiss as murder/suicide.

9) Lady in the lake

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Detective Marlow sets out to find the missing wife of a publishing magnate. Several smack-arounds, one dead gigolo, a few angry cops, a booze-soaked frame-up and one dame in the lake later, Marlowe finds the killer and finds he's looking at the business end of a gun. -- Container.

10) Marlowe

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Orfamay Quest from Kansas has hired private detective Philip Marlowe to find her brother. After two leads turn up with ice picks stuck in them, he discovers blackmail photos concerning TV star Mavis Wald. She rejects Marlowe's help, and this is forcibly underlined by her gangster boyfriend. So, wonders Marlowe, is there a link between Orfamay and Mavis?

11) Murder, my sweet

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Archive collection

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"They say crime doesn't pay. Private detective Philip Marlowe knows better. The fat wad of folding money warming his breast pocket is the kind of thing that keeps him going through thick and thicker as he wades chin deep into a mystery involving a missing necklace and a missing hoodlum's moll named Velma." --publisher's website