" -Carolyn SeeĪbout the Author Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888 - 1959) was the master practitioner of American hard-boiled crime fiction. He takes us into a different world, a world that's like ours, but isn't. "Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since." -Paul Auster "'s the perfect novelist for our times. "Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude." -Erle Stanley Gardner "he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision." -Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books "Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence." -Ross Macdonald He wrote like an angel." - Literary Review "Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. A great artist." - The Boston Book Review
"Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. Parker, The New York Times Book Review "Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye." - Los Angeles Times
" wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered." - The New Yorker "Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious." -Robert B. "Raymond Chandler is a master." - The New York Times 45 still looking like a toy in his big hairy paw. All did was nothing.Moose Malloy stepped out of the dressing room, with the Colt. All she did was point it at me and smile.
Philip Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.įrom the Back Cover All she did was take her hand out of her bag, with a gun in it. Book Synopsis The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" ( Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe - Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.
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