(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The only complete edition of
stories by the undisputed master of detective literature, collected
here for the first time in one volume, including some stories that
have been unavailable for decades. When Raymond Chandler turned to
writing at the age of forty-five, he began by publishing stories in
pulp magazines such as "Black Mask" before later writing his famous
novels. These stories are where Chandler honed his art and
developed his uniquely vivid underworld, peopled with good cops and
bad cops, informers and extortionists, lethally predatory blondes
and redheads, and crime, sex, gambling, and alcohol in abundance.
In addition to his classic hard-boiled stories-in which his
signature atmosphere of depravity and violence swirls around the
cool, intuitive loners whose type culminated in the famous
detective Philip Marlowe-Chandler also turned his hand to fantasy
and even a gothic romance. This rich treasury of twenty-five
stories shows Chandler developing the terse, laconic, understated
style that would serve him so well in his later masterpieces, and
immerses the reader in the richly realized fictional universe that
has become an enduring part of our literary landscape
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