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Poodle Springs

Raymond Chandler,Robert B. Parker
Poodle Springs Book PDF

Author : Raymond Chandler,Robert B. Parker
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425239346

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Poodle Springs by Raymond Chandler,Robert B. Parker Pdf

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."--Playboy Philip 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

The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep Book PDF

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547190608

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The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Raymond Chandler Speaking

Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler Speaking Book PDF

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0520208358

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Raymond Chandler Speaking by Raymond Chandler Pdf

Tough-minded and typically idiosyncratic, here is Chandler on Chandler, the mystery novel, writing, Hollywood, TV, publishing, cats, and famous crimes. This skillfully edited selection of letters, articles, and notes also includes the short story "A Couple of Writers" and the first chapters of Chandler's last Philip Marlowe novel, The Poodle Springs Story, left unfinished at his death. Paul Skenazy has provided a new introduction for this edition as well as a new selected bibliography. --Publisher description.

Perchance to Dream

Robert B. Parker
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Author : Robert B. Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Large type books
ISBN : LCCN:90047004

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Perchance to Dream by Robert B. Parker Pdf

When a sinister doctor pairs up with a sex-crazed eccentric to kidnap the psychotic Carol Sternwood, Marlowe's investigation leads him ever deeper into a decadent southern Californian underworld.

Playback

Raymond Chandler
Playback Book PDF

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547190363

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Playback by Raymond Chandler Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Playback" by Raymond Chandler. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Poodle Springs

Raymond Chandler,Robert B. Parker
Poodle Springs Book PDF

Author : Raymond Chandler,Robert B. Parker
Publisher : Putnam Adult
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0399134824

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Poodle Springs by Raymond Chandler,Robert B. Parker Pdf

Parker completes Chandler's four chapter fragment of a Philip Marlowe novel.

Double Play

Robert B. Parker
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Author : Robert B. Parker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101204818

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Double Play by Robert B. Parker Pdf

“Parker pretty much defies category altogether in this deeply felt and intimately told memory tale, which takes place during the historic baseball season of 1947...Fusing this chapter of sports history with a hard-boiled gangster plot and haunting recollections of his own Boston boyhood, Parker fashions a hugely entertaining fiction.”—The New York Times 1947: Jackie Robinson breaks major-league baseball’s color barrier—and changes the world. The event also changes the life of Joseph Burke, veteran of World War II and Robinson’s bodyguard—because under the media spotlight, hard truths are easier than ever to see, and harder to escape. And some can prove fatal.

Only to Sleep

Lawrence Osborne
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Author : Lawrence Osborne
Publisher : Hogarth
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524759636

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Lawrence Osborne brings one of literature’s most enduring detectives back to life—as Private Investigator Philip Marlowe returns for one last adventure. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND NPR • NOMINATED FOR THE EDGAR AND SHAMUS AWARDS The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. And Philip Marlowe—now in his seventy-second year—is living out his retirement in the terrace bar of the La Fonda hotel. Sipping margaritas, playing cards, his silver-tipped cane at the ready. When in saunter two men dressed like undertakers, with a case that has his name written all over it. For Marlowe, this is his last roll of the dice, his swan song. His mission is to investigate the death of Donald Zinn—supposedly drowned off his yacht, and leaving behind a much younger and now very rich wife. But is Zinn actually alive? Are the pair living off the spoils? Set between the border and badlands of Mexico and California, Lawrence Osborne’s resurrection of the iconic Marlowe is an unforgettable addition to the Raymond Chandler canon. Praise for Only to Sleep “A new case for Philip Marlowe and—have a smell from the barrel, all you gunsels and able grables —it crackles.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) “Brilliant. Osborne and Chandler are a perfect match.”—William Boyd, author of Any Human Heart “A Marlowe we at once know, but have never met before. As much a meditation on aging and memory as it is a crime thriller.”—Los Angeles Times “It’s the kind of book where, when you read it, it turns the world to black and white for a half-hour afterward. It leaves you with the taste of rum and blood in your mouth. It hangs with you like a scar.”—NPR

The Black-Eyed Blonde

John Banville,Benjamin Black
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Author : John Banville,Benjamin Black
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780805098150

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The Black-Eyed Blonde by John Banville,Benjamin Black Pdf

Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe returns in The Black-Eyed Blonde—also published as Marlowe as by John Banville—the basis for the major motion picture starring Liam Neeson as the iconic detective. "Somewhere Raymond Chandler is smiling . . . I loved this book. It was like having an old friend, one you assumed was dead, walk into the room." —Stephen King "It was one of those Tuesday afternoons in summer when you wonder if the earth has stopped revolving." The streets of Bay City, California, in the early 1950s are as mean as they get. Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and the private eye business is a little slow. Then a new client is shown in: blond, beautiful, and expensively dressed, she wants Marlowe to find her former lover. Almost immediately, Marlowe discovers that the man's disappearance is merely the first in a series of bewildering events. Soon he is tangling with one of Bay City's richest and most ruthless families—and developing a singular appreciation for how far they will go to protect their fortune. “It’s vintage L.A., toots: The hot summer, rain on the asphalt, the woman with the lipstick, cigarette ash and alienation, V8 coupes, tough guys, snub-nosed pistols, the ice melting in the bourbon . . . . The results are Chandleresque, sure, but you can see Banville’s sense of fun.” —The Washington Post

The Dark Remains

Ian Rankin,William McIlvanney
The Dark Remains Book PDF

Author : Ian Rankin,William McIlvanney
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781838854126

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The Dark Remains by Ian Rankin,William McIlvanney Pdf

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER In this scorching crime hook-up, number one bestseller Ian Rankin and Scottish crime-writing legend William McIlvanney join forces for the first ever case of DI Laidlaw, Glasgow’s original gritty detective 'Fantastic' Lee Child 'Absolutely brilliant' Mick Herron If the truth's in the shadows, get out of the light . . . Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong type of people. Now he’s dead and it was no accident. He’s left behind his share of enemies, but who dealt the fatal blow? DC Jack Laidlaw’s reputation precedes him. He’s not a team player, but he’s got a sixth sense for what’s happening on the streets. As two Glasgow gangs go to war, Laidlaw needs to find out who got Carter before the whole city explodes.

Creatures of Darkness

Gene D. Phillips
Creatures of Darkness Book PDF

Author : Gene D. Phillips
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813160016

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Creatures of Darkness by Gene D. Phillips Pdf

“[An] exhaustively researched survey of Raymond Chandler’s thorny relationship with Hollywood during the classic period of film noir.” —Alain Silver, film producer and author Raymond Chandler’s seven novels, including The Big Sleep (1939) and The Long Goodbye (1953), with their pessimism and grim realism, had a direct influence on the emergence of film noir. Chandler worked to give his crime novels the flavor of his adopted city, Los Angeles, which was still something of a frontier town, rife with corruption and lawlessness. In addition to novels, Chandler wrote short stories and penned the screenplays for several films, including Double Indemnity (1944) and Strangers on a Train (1951). His work with Billy Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock on these projects was fraught with the difficulties of collaboration between established directors and an author who disliked having to edit his writing on demand. Creatures of Darkness is the first major biocritical study of Chandler in twenty years. Gene Phillips explores Chandler’s unpublished script for Lady in the Lake, examines the process of adaptation of the novel Strangers on a Train, discusses the merits of the unproduced screenplay for Playback, and compares Howard Hawks’s director’s cut of The Big Sleep with the version shown in theaters. Through interviews he conducted with Wilder, Hitchcock, Hawks, and Edward Dmytryk over the past several decades, Phillips provides deeper insight into Chandler’s sometimes difficult personality. Chandler’s wisecracking private eye, Philip Marlowe, has spawned a thousand imitations. Creatures of Darkness lucidly explains the author’s dramatic impact on both the literary and cinematic worlds, demonstrating the immeasurable debt that both detective fiction and the neo-noir films of today owe to Chandler’s stark vision.

A Reader's Guide to Raymond Chandler

Toby Widdicombe
A Reader s Guide to Raymond Chandler Book PDF

Author : Toby Widdicombe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313016523

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A Reader's Guide to Raymond Chandler by Toby Widdicombe Pdf

The author of such works as The Big Sleep (1939), Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Lady in the Lake (1943), and The Long Goodbye (1953), Raymond Chandler was one of the most popular mystery writers of his time. His works continue to be read today and have been adapted many times into films. Chandler's writings have also been receiving growing amounts of scholarly attention, and while most of this attention has focused on his use of language, critics are now studying the fictitious world he created and the milieu in which he wrote. This reference is a detailed guide to his writings. A chronology and brief biography overview the chief events in his life and career, with the biography discussing thematic patterns in his life and writings. The major section of the book, Chandler's World, describes the characters and places in his 7 novels and 25 short stories. Alphabetically arranged entries also provide summaries of his works, along with discussions of key topics. The entries are concise and informative and thus readily guide the reader through Chandler's complex universe. Appendices provide information about adaptations of his works, along with extensive listings of primary and secondary sources for additional consultation.

Focus and Secondary Predication

Susanne Winkler
Focus and Secondary Predication Book PDF

Author : Susanne Winkler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110150573

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Focus and Secondary Predication by Susanne Winkler Pdf

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert

Booze and the Private Eye

Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe
Booze and the Private Eye Book PDF

Author : Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786481538

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Booze and the Private Eye by Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe Pdf

The hard-bitten PI with a bottle of bourbon in his desk drawer--it's an image as old as the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction itself. Alcohol has long been an important element of detective fiction, but it is no mere prop. Rather, the treatment of alcohol within the works informs and illustrates the detective's moral code, and casts light upon the society's attitudes towards drink. This examination of the role of alcohol in hard-boiled detective fiction begins with the genre's birth, in an era strongly influenced and affected by prohibition, and follows both the genre's development and its relation to our changing understanding of and attitudes towards alcohol and alcoholism. It discusses the works of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, Robert B. Parker, Lawrence Block, Marcia Muller, Karen Kijewski and Sue Grafton. There are bibliographies of both the primary and critical texts, and an index of authors and works.

Private Eyes

Robert Allen Baker,Michael T. Nietzel
Private Eyes Book PDF

Author : Robert Allen Baker,Michael T. Nietzel
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0879723300

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Private Eyes by Robert Allen Baker,Michael T. Nietzel Pdf

Private Eyes is the complete map to what Raymond Bhandler called "the mean streets," the exciting world of the fictional private eye. It is intended to entertain current PI fans and to make new ones.