Best Philip Marlowe
The High Window is a 1942 detective novel by Raymond Chandler featuring Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe. Marlowe is hired by a wealthy widow to recover a rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, which she believes was stolen by her daughter-in-law. The missing coin draws him into a network o...
The Lady in the Lake is a 1943 detective novel by Raymond Chandler featuring private investigator Philip Marlowe. Hired to locate the missing wife of a businessman, Marlowe follows the case from Los Angeles to the mountain community of Little Fawn Lake, where another woman's body has been discovered...
The Little Sister is a 1949 detective novel by Raymond Chandler featuring Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe. Marlowe is hired by a young woman searching for her missing brother, but the inquiry leads into blackmail, murder, organized crime, and the morally compromised world surrounding...
The last Philip Marlowe novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1958, was adapted from an unproduced screenplay he had written several years earlier.
