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When a case of blackmail involving the daughter of a California millionaire leads to murder, the inimitable Philip Marlowe is stirred into action as he becomes embroiled in a troublesome case of extortion complicated by kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder.
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Library of America volume 79
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
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A collection of mystery, crime stories set in a modern cityscape, includes the first three novels featuring Chandler's great private eye Philip Marlowe, whose tough, disillusioned and sensitive.
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A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortune -- the elements don't quite add up until Marlowe discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and the worst kind of human exploitation.
11) Poodle Springs
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Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 8
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English
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"Based upon and incorporating the unfinished Raymond Chandler novel, the Poodle Springs story." Marlowe, a loner, marries a rich Poodle Springs heiress, is hired by a gangster, and discovers a dark and dangerous side of town.
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The Library of America volume 80
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©1995
Language
English
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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...
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