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| x Double Indemnity |
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Double Indemnity (1944) is an American film noir starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson. The film was directed by Billy Wilder and adapted by Wilder and Raymond Chandler from the novella of the same title by James M. Cain...
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| x The Blue Dahlia |
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The Blue Dahlia (1946) is an American film noir directed by George Marshall and written by Raymond Chandler.
Halfway through the script, Chandler became unable to write. A former alcoholic, he'd become a teetotaler for health reasons. He decided...
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| x Strangers on a Train |
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Strangers on a Train is a film released in 1951 by Warner Bros. It was produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The film stars Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, Kasey Rogers (credited as Laura Elliott), and Patricia...
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| x Murder, My Sweet |
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Murder, My Sweet (1944) is a film noir directed by Edward Dmytryk, and starring Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, and Anne Shirley. The film was originally released in the United Kingdom under the title Farewell, My Lovely, which is the title of the 1940...
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| x And Now Tomorrow |
And Now Tomorrow is the name of the bestselling novel, published in 1942, by Rachel Field, as well as the 1944 movie based on it, directed by Irving Pichel. Both center around one doctor's attempt for curing deafness. The film stars Alan Ladd and...
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| x The White Carnation |
The White Carnation is a 1954 made-for-television film written by Raymond Chandler, and starring Claudette Colbert, Boris Karloff and Teresa Wright. TV Series:Climax! (Season 1, Episode 9)
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| x Raymond Chandler |
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Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an Anglo-American novelist and screenwriter who had an immense stylistic influence upon the modern private detective story, especially in the style of the writing and the attitudes now...
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| x The Big Sleep |
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The Big Sleep (1939) is a crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first in his acclaimed series about hardboiled detective Philip Marlowe. The work has been adapted twice into film, once in 1946 and again in 1978.
The story is noted for its complexity...
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| x Farewell, My Lovely |
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Farewell, My Lovely is a 1940 novel by Raymond Chandler, the second novel he wrote featuring Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe. It was adapted for the screen three times.
A chance encounter with hulking ex-con Moose Malloy on Los Angeles'...
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| x The Long Goodbye |
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The Long Good-bye (ISBN 0-394-75768-8) is a 1953 novel by Raymond Chandler, centered on his famous detective Philip Marlowe. While some consider it not on the level of The Big Sleep or Farewell, My Lovely, others rank it as the best of his work. It...
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| x The Simple Art of Murder |
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"The Simple Art of Murder" refers to both a critical essay and a collection of short stories written by hard-boiled detective fiction author Raymond Chandler. The essay was first published in The Atlantic Monthly in December 1944. It was reprinted...
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| x The Lady in the Lake |
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The Lady in the Lake is a 1943 detective novel by Raymond Chandler featuring, as do all his major works, the Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe.
Notable for its removal of Marlowe from his usual Los Angeles environs for much of the book...
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| x Playback |
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Playback is the final complete novel by Raymond Chandler, which features his iconic creation Philip Marlowe. It was published in 1958, the year before his death.
The book puts Marlowe in the position of turning against a client who has hired him ...
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| x The Little Sister |
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The Little Sister is a 1949 novel by Raymond Chandler, the fifth in his popular Philip Marlowe series. The story is set in late 1940s Los Angeles.
The story opens when mousy Orfamay Quest walks into Philip Marlowe's office in search of a detective....
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| x The High Window |
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The High Window is a 1942 novel written by Raymond Chandler. It is his third novel to feature Los Angeles private detective Philip Marlowe.
The story begins when Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher...
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| x Poodle Springs |
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Poodle Springs is the eighth Philip Marlowe novel. It was started in 1958 by Raymond Chandler, who left it unfinished at his death in 1959. The four chapters he had completed, which bore the working title "The Poodle Springs Story", were...
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| x Raymond Chandler Speaking |
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Raymond Chandler Speaking is a collection of letter excerpts, various notes, essays and an unfinished novel. It was compiled in 1962 by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker.
Apart from excerpts from letters by Chandler on a variety of...
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| x Killer in the Rain |
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"Killer in the Rain" refers to a collection of short stories, including the eponymous title story, written by hard-boiled detective fiction author Raymond Chandler.
The collection features eight short stories originally published in pulp magazines...
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| x The Raymond Chandler Omnibus |
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The Raymond Chandler Omnibus collects the novels "The Big Sleep", "Farewell, My Lovely", "The High Window", and "The Lady in the Lake".
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| x Pick-Up on Noon Street |
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| x Five Murderers |
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| x Five Sinister Characters |
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| x Finger Man |
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| x Chandler Before Marlowe: Raymond Chandler's Early Prose and Poetry, 1908-1912 | ||
| x Raymond Chandler's Unknown Thriller: The Screenplay of Playback |
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| x Professor Bingo's Snuff | ||
| x Mandarin's Jade | ||
| x Red Wind | ||
| x Killer in the Rain | ||
| x Finger Man | ||
| x The King in Yellow | ||
| x Trouble Is My Business | ||
| x Guns at Cyrano's | ||
| x The Bronze Door | ||
| x The Man Who Liked Dogs | ||
| x No Crime in the Mountains | ||
| x Bay City Blues | ||
| x Goldfish | ||
| x I'll Be Waiting | ||
| x Smart-Aleck Kill | ||
| x Pearls Are a Nuisance | ||
| x Blackmailers Don't Shoot | ||
| x Spanish Blood | ||
| x The Lady in the Lake | ||
| x Try the Girl | ||
| x Pickup on Noon Street | ||
| x The Pencil | ||
| x Nevada Gas | ||
| x English Summer | ||
| x The Curtain | ||
| x The Simple Art of Murder | ||
| x Writers in Hollywood | ||
| x Oscar Night in Hollywood | ||
| x Ten Percent of Your Life | ||
| x Later Novels & Other Writings | ||
| x Stories & Early Novels |
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| x Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler | ||
| x An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. | ||
| x A really good detective never gets married. | ||
