This reader is accompanied with a CD that contains the full audio of the text in MP3 format. Detective Philip Marlowe is looking for Derace Kingsley's wife, Crystal. Did she go to El Paso with her lover or is she dead? Is she the lady in the lake?
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Raymond Chandler
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 83 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1984–2026, suosituimpiin kuuluu The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
83 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1984–2026.
When Raymond Chandler died in 1959, he left behind the first four chapters of a new Philip Marlowe thriller. Now three decades later, Robert B. Parker, the bestselling creator of the Spenser detective novels, has completed Poodle Springs in a full-length masterpiece of criminal passion." More than just an impressive homage, this is a first-rate detective novel with all of the suspense, action, and human drama that we have come to expect from the best."--PlayboyPhilip Marlowe is alive and well and living in Poodle Springs, California. He's married to a wealthy heiress now. But living in the lap of luxury hasn't made a dent in Marlowe's cynicism--or his talent for attracting trouble. Soon he's on a trail of greed, lust, and murder as dark and cunning as any he's ever seen. Philip Marlowe is back in business." Raymond Chandler fans, throw away your dog-eared copies of The Big Sleep... Philip Marlowe has returned "--Milwaukee Journal
Moose Malloy, ein Hüne von einem Mann, hat acht Jahre im Knast verbracht. Nun ist er wieder auf freiem Fuß und will seine Liebste wiederfinden, die Vari?t?-Tänzerin Velma. Privatdetektiv Philip Marlowe ist zur falschen Zeit am richtigen Ort und gerät in eine üble Geschichte um Juwelendiebe, einen Wahrsager, korrupte Polizisten und einen Haufen Gangster, die erst schießen und dann reden.
Privatdetektiv Philip Marlowe wird von Rechtsanwalt Clyde Unmey beauftragt, eine junge Dame zu beschatten. Die rothaarige Eleanor King ist eine Augenweide, und der Auftrag ganz nach Marlowes Geschmack. Bis die erste Leiche auftaucht. Denn Miss Kings größtes Talent besteht darin, in Schwierigkeiten zu geraten. Und Marlowe ist nicht der Einzige, der ihr folgt.
Ein Mann, der - zufällig - Mallory heißt, versucht, eine Hollywood-Schauspielerin zu erpressen mit alten Liebesbriefen, die sie an einen bekannten Gangster schrieb. Aber er ist nicht der Einzige ... Fünf Stories, in denen Chandler die Kriminalgeschichte zur literarischen Hochform erhebt.
Chandlers erste Stories, die er später für seine Romane ausgeschlachtet und kunstvoll zusammengenäht hat. Die meisten Geschichten, entstanden 1935-1941, erschienen zuerst im Crime-Magazine 'Black Mask', von dem die Revolution des Detektivromans ihren Ausgang nahm und ihre Klassiker entließ.
Terry Lennox ist ein Säufer, und das ist nicht sein einziges Problem: Seine millionenschwere Frau wurde ermordet. Die Polizei hat ihn im Verdacht. Da wendet er sich an seinen einzigen Freund: Privatdetektiv Philip Marlowe. Der Freundschaftsdienst führt Marlowe nach Idle Valley, wo die Reichen von Los Angeles sich mit Affären und Alkohol die Zeit vertreiben. Bald steckt er tief in der Tinte.
Level 2: Lady in the Lake
Raymond Chandler
Pearson Education Limited
2008
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Halvin toimitettuna 18,60 €
Contemporary / American English Detective Philip Marlowe is looking for Derace Kingsley's wife, Crystal. Is she dead or not? Marlowe finds more than one dead body and learns about women, drugs, men in love, and a police cover-up. Who killed The Lady in the Lake and why?
The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story. David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.
Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 4:: The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler; Rosalie Kerr
Oxford University Press
2007
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The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story. David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.
The only complete collection of shorter fiction by the undisputed master of detective literature, assembled here for the first time in one volume, includes stories unavailable for decades. When Raymond Chandler turned to writing at the age of forty-five, he began by publishing in pulp magazines such as Black Mask before later writing his famous novels. In these stories Chandler honed his art and developed his uniquely vivid underworld, peopled with good cops and bad cops, informers and extortionists, lethally predatory blondes and redheads, and crime, sex, gambling and alcohol in abundance. In addition to his classic detective fiction – in which his signature atmosphere of depravity and violence swirls around cool, intuitive loners such as Philip Marlowe – Chandler turned his hand to fantasy and even a Gothic romance. This rich treasury of twenty-five stories shows him developing the laconic, understated style that would serve him so well in his later masterpieces, immersing readers in the richly realized fictional universe that has become a part of our literary landscape.
The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback
Raymond Chandler
Everyman's Library
2002
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Creator of the famous Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler elevated the American hard-boiled detective genre to an art form. His last four novels, published here in one volume, offer ample opportunity to savour the unique and 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 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 humour and existential sense of his job prove yet again why he has become one of the most recognized and imitated characters in fiction.
On every level - writing, direction, acting - "Double Indemnity" (1944) is a triumph and stands as one of the greatest achievements in Billy Wilder's career. Adapted from the James M. Cain novel by director Wilder and novelist Raymond Chandler, it tells the story of an insurance salesman, played by Fred MacMurray, who is lured into a murder-for-insurance plot by Barbara Stanwyck, in an archetypal femme fatale role. From its grim story to its dark, atmospheric lighting, "Double Indemnity" is a definitive example of World War II-era film noir. Wilder's approach is everywhere evident: in the brutal cynicism the film displays, the moral complexity, and in the empathy we feel for the killers. The film received almost unanimous critical success, garnering seven Academy Award nominations. More than fifty years later, most critics agree that this classic is one of the best films of all time. The collaboration between Wilder and Raymond Chandler produced a masterful script and some of the most memorable dialogue ever spoken in a movie. This facsimile edition of "Double Indemnity" contains Wilder and Chandler's original - and quite different - ending, published here for the first time. Jeffrey Meyers' introduction contextualizes the screenplay, providing hilarious anecdotes about the turbulent collaboration, as well as background information about Wilder and the film's casting and production.
Stories and Early Novels
Raymond Chandler; Frank (EDT) MacShane; Raymond Chandler
The Library of America
1995
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In Raymond Chandler's hands, the pulp crime story became a haunting mystery of power and corruption, set against a modern cityscape both lyrical and violent. With humor, and an unerring sense of dialogue and the telling detail he created a fictional universe out of the dark side of sunlit Los Angeles. In the process, he transformed both the crime novel and American writing. Stories and Early Novels includes the first three novels featuring Chandler's great creation, private eye Philip Marlow: tough, disillusioned, and sensitive. In The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, and The High WIndow, Marlow's investigations lead him from Los Angeles shanties and honkey tonks to the highest reaches of power, encountering a world of gangsters and crooked politicans, lost souls and small-time operators. Thirteen stories from the pulp magazines Black Mask and Dime Detective include such classics as "Red Wind" and "Trouble Is My Business." The volume, with its companion, Later Novels and Other Writings, comprise the most comprehensive edition available of America's greatest mystery writer.
The Lady in the Lake
Raymond Chandler
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
1988
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Halvin toimitettuna 19,90 €
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. In The Lady in the Lake, hardboiled crime fiction master Raymond Chandler brings us the story of a couple of missing wives--one a rich man's and one a poor man's--who have become the objects of Philip Marlowe's investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be dead. Marlowe's not sure he cares about either one, but he's not paid to care.