Raymond Chandler
These two classic novels featuring private eye Philip Marlowe made Raymond Chandler's name synonymous with America's hard-boiled school of crime fiction.Â Â ,The Big Sleep, was an instant success when first published in 1939.Â Â It centers around a paralyzed California millionaire with two psychopathic daughters; he involves Marlowe in a case of blackmail that turns into murder.,Farewell My Lovely,, which Chandler regarded as his finest work, came out the following year.Â Â It has Marlowe dealing with the Los Angeles gambling circuit, a murder he stumbles upon, and three very beautiful but potentially deadly women.,"Chandler writes like a slumming angel and invests the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence," said Ross Macdonald.Â Â And George V. Higgins wrote:Â Â "Chandler is fun to read.Â Â He's as bleak as tundra, and his dirtbag characters far outnumber his stellar citizens, but Philip Marlowe is a laconic tour guide through a zoo of truly interesting animals."
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The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely (#1-2)