The Lady in the Lake, the Little Sister, the Long Goodbye, Playback: Introduction by Tom Hiney Hardcover - 2002
by Raymond Chandler; Introduction by Tom Hiney
In this collection of Chandler's four later novels, "The Lady in the Lake" follows Marlowe out of his natural habitat, into the mountains of L.A. and deep into trouble. In "The Little Sister, " he uncovers a little blackmail, a lot of drugs, and more murder. In "The Long Goodbye, " a war-scarred drunk, his nymphomaniac wife, and Marlowe are on the run from a psychotic gangster. In "Playback, " there is a well-endowed redhead, murder and, of course, Marlowe.
Summary
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Creator of the famous Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler elevated the American hard-boiled detective genre to an art form. Chandler's last four novels, published here in one volume, offer ample opportunity to savor the unique and utterly compelling fictional world that made his works modern classics.
THE LADY IN THE LAKE moves Marlowe out of his usual habitat of city streets and into the mountains outside of Los Angeles in his strange search for a missing woman. THE LITTLE SISTER takes Marlowe to Hollywood, where he tries to find a sweet young thing's missing brother, uncovering on the way a little blackmail, a lot of drugs, and more than enough murder." In THE LONG GOODBYE, a case involving a war-scarred drunk and his nymphomaniac wife has Marlowe constantly on the move: a psychotic gangster's on his trail, he's in trouble with the cops, and more and more corpses keep turning up. PLAYBACK features a well-endowed redhead who leads Marlowe to the California coast to solve a tale of big money and, of course, murder. Throughout these masterpieces, Marlowe's wry humor and existential sense of his job prove yet again why he has become one of the most recognized and imitated characters in fiction.
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- Title The Lady in the Lake, the Little Sister, the Long Goodbye, Playback: Introduction by Tom Hiney
- Author Raymond Chandler; Introduction by Tom Hiney
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 1016
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Everyman's Library, New York
- Date 2002-10-15
- ISBN 9780375415029 / 0375415025
- Weight 1.9 lbs (0.86 kg)
- Dimensions 8.32 x 5.42 x 1.8 in (21.13 x 13.77 x 4.57 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southern California
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Locality: Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
- Library of Congress subjects Los Angeles (Calif.), Private investigators - California - Los
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003271107
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Library Journal, 12/01/2002, Page 186
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