The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback: Introduction by Tom Hiney-Fast Shipping

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Creator of the famous Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandlerelevated the American hard-boiled detective genre to an art form. Chandler’s lastfour novels, published here in one volume, offer ample opportunity to savor the uniqueand utterly compelling fictional world that made his works modern classics.

TheLady in the Lake moves Marlowe out of his usual habitat of city streets and intothe mountains outside of Los Angeles in his strange search for a missing woman. TheLittle Sister takes Marlowe to Hollywood, where he tries to find a sweet young thing’smissing brother, uncovering on the way a little blackmail, a lot of drugs, and morethan enough murder. In The Long Goodbye, a case involving a war-scarred drunk andhis nymphomaniac wife has Marlowe constantly on the move: a psychotic gangster’son his trail, he’s in trouble with the cops, and more and more corpses keep turningup. Playback features a well-endowed redhead who leads Marlowe to the Californiacoast 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 becomeone of the most recognized and imitated characters in fiction.

Featuring the iconic character that inspired the forthcoming film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.