Raymond Chandler: The Library of America Edition (Library of

Raymond Chandler: The Library of America Edition (Library of America, 79-80)

It was about eleven oâ€™clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark blue clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didnâ€™t care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.
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With these words, private eye Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandlerâ€™s great literary creation and one of the most enduringly popular characters in American fiction, first took life seventy-five years ago. Here, for the first time in a deluxe collectorâ€™s box, are all seven Philip Marlowe novelsâ€”The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window; The Lady in the Lake; The Little Sister; The Long Goodbye; and Playbackâ€”along with thirteen classic pulp stories, Chandlerâ€™s brilliant screenplay for Double Indemnity, and a selection of his revealing essays and letters: the most comprehensive edition of the hard-boiled crime fiction of Raymond Chandler ever published.
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781598533194
ReleaseDate 2014-03-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781598533194

Raymond Chandler: The Library of America Edition (Library of America, 79-80)