1905, ISBN: 0394758277

[EAN: 9780394758275], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard], Product DescriptionThe renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessentia… More...

[EAN: 9780394758275], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard], Product DescriptionThe 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 forthcoming film Marlowe, starring Liam NeesonPhilip Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.From Library JournalChandler is not only the best writer of hardboiled PI stories, he's one of the 20th century's top scribes, period. His full canon of novels and short stories is reprinted in trade paper featuring uniform covers in Black Lizard's signature style. A handsome set for a reasonable price.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.Review"Raymond Chandler is a master." --The New York Times"[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered." --The New Yorker"Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious." --Robert B. Parker, The New York Times Book Review"Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye." --Los Angeles Times"Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist." -The Boston Book Review"Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandler’s prose. . . . He wrote like an angel." --Literary Review"[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision." --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books"Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence." -Ross Macdonald"Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude." --Erle Stanley Gardner"Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since." --Paul Auster"[Chandler]’s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world that’s like ours, but isn’t. " --Carolyn SeeFrom the Inside FlapMarlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.From the Back CoverAll she did was take her hand out of her bag, with a gun in it. All she did was point it at me and smile. All did was nothing.Moose Malloy stepped out of the dressing room, with the Colt .45 still looking like a toy in his big hairy paw.About the AuthorRaymond Thornton Chandler (1888 - 1959) was the master practitioner of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Although he was born in Chicago, Chandler spent most of his boyhood and youth in England where he attended Dulwich College and later worked as a freelance journalist for The Westminster Gazette and The Spectator. During World War I, Chandler served in France with the First Division of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, transferring later to the Royal Flying Corps (R. A. F.). In 1919 he returned to the United States, settling in California, where he eventually became director of a number of independent oil companies. The Depression put an end to his career, and in 1933, at the age of forty-five, he turned to writing fiction, publishing his first stories in Black Mask. Chandler’s detective stories often starred the brash but honorable Philip Marlowe (introduced in 1939 in his first novel, The Big Sleep) and were noted for their literate presentation and dead-on critical eye. Never a prolific writer, Chandler publi, Books<