Chandler Raymond

The Lady in the Lake is a classic detective novel by the master of hard-boiled crime, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about...

'A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness. It all depends on where you sit and what your own private score is. I didn't have one. I didn't care'Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to...

He lay crumpled on his back. Very lonely, very dead.The safe door was wide open. A metal drawer was pulled out. It was empty now. There may have been money in it once.'Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe's on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's...

Hard-boiled detective fiction at its best: Raymond Chandler's best loved novel, The Big Sleep, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.'I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.'Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe...

Kobieta, która zjawiła się w biurze Philipa Marlowe'a, miała na imię Orfamay. I narzeczonego o imieniu Philip, czym wzruszyła Marlowe'a. A do Los Angeles dotarła z mieściny Manhattan, w stanie Kansas. Powód też miała istotny - odszukać brata. Bo Orrin, mieszkający w kalifornijskim Bay City, od kilku miesięcy nie dawał znaku życia, czym spędzał sen...

Zlecenie, jakie Philip Marlowe, prywatny detektyw, dostaje od generała Sternwooda, wydaje się proste. Ten bliski śmierci, poruszający się na wózku, bogaty weteran wielu wojen, ma dwie córki. A jedna jest bardziej zdeprawowana od drugiej. Mąż Vivian - obecnie pani Regan, trzeci raz zamężnej - pokątnie handlował alkoholem, a teraz tajemniczo się...