Best Raymond Chandler
Marlowe defined the modern private investigator archetype. He is less about solving the puzzle and more about surviving the moral swamp of Los Angeles. His brilliance is not in deduction, but in his sheer moral fortitude and wit when facing corruption. He embodies the disillusioned American spirit,...
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...
Raymond Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter whose work helped define hardboiled detective fiction. His first novel, The Big Sleep, appeared in 1939 and introduced Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe, later featured in works including Farewell, My Lovely and The Lon...
The last Philip Marlowe novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1958, was adapted from an unproduced screenplay he had written several years earlier.
