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» 80 more Favourite Books (199) Books Read in 2014 (45) Murder Mysteries (4) A Novel Cure (56) Page Turners (12) Cerebral Mysteries (12) 1930s (9) Books Read in 2017 (344) Folio Society (242) Top Five Books of 2015 (238) Top Five Books of 2017 (226) Top Five Books of 2014 (691) Top Five Books of 2016 (506) Books About Murder (45) Read (36) Overdue Podcast (164) First Novels (47) Detective Stories (34) Books in Riverdale (25) Books Read in 2022 (2,538) Fiction For Men (14) Urban Fiction (39) SHOULD Read Books! (25) Read These Too (70) My TBR (18) MysteryCAT 2014 (6) Books Read in 2011 (106) Read (25) Protagonists - Men (23) Five star books (1,626) Unread books (953) No current Talk conversations about this book. 3,5 I really liked this book. Great descriptions, juicy similes. This is really the book that defined the hard-boiled detective fiction genre as we know it. Raymond Chandler conjures a massively influential genre lead in Philip Marlowe. The classic private eye, blackmail, subterfuge, murder, corruption, femme fatale's and more are all present here and although the story beats are all familiar, there is a good reason for that. In addition, the craft in telling a story, using challenging jargonistic language in a way that is crystal clear to the reader, and on top of that, making the mystery not solvable from the first page? When an author invents the formula but the reader doesn't necessarily have a handle on his style, that's the good stuff! This is a very short novel and it took me some time to finish this. I'm not going to go all out and give it 5 stars just because it didn't quite hook me the way it did my brother, who finished it in a single day. Still I can see myself coming back to this one day and perhaps I might look at it more favourably then! Great book. Question folks: Was there a version starring Robert Mitchum??
Novela repleta de nervio y de ingeniosos diálogos. Es un caso de chantaje el que lleva a Marlowe a asomarse a las alcantarillas de una sociedad en apariencia espléndida. Belongs to SeriesPhilip Marlowe (1) Belongs to Publisher SeriesArion Press (19) Delfinserien (91) detebe (70/I) — 17 more El País. Serie negra (46) Penguin Books (652) SaPo (74) Den svarte serie (175) Vampiro (213) Zephyr Books (148) Is contained inRaymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels: Pulp Stories / The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window (Library of America) by Raymond Chandler A Treasury of Great Mysteries by Howard Haycraft (indirect) The big sleep/Farewell my lovely/The high window/The lady in the lake/The long goodbye/Playback by Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window / The Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister / The Long Goodbye / Playback by Raymond Chandler The Raymond Chandler Omnibus: The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window / The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler Five Novels: Finger Man; The big sleep; Farewell my loveley; High window; The lady in the lake by Raymond Chandler Murder & Mayhem: The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories; The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window; The Human Factor; (Everyman's Library) by James M. Cain "Vechnyi son". "Prokrutka". "Nepriiatnosti - moe remeslo". "Chelovek, kotoryi liubil sobak". "Krovavyi veter". "Ispanskaia krov' ". "Prostoe iskusstvo ubiistva" by Chandler Reimond OBRAS SELECTAS - EL SUEÑO ETERNO - LA VENTANA ALTA - LA HERMANITA - EL LARGO ADIOS by Raymond Chandler Great Mystery Books, 10 Volumes (Journey into Fear, The 39 Steps, And Then There Were None, Maltese Falcon, The Nine Tailors, The Doorbell Rang, The Confidential Agent, The Big Sleep, Assignment in Brittany, The Daughter of Time) by Eric Ambler Club del misterio. Volumen I: Prólogo de J. J. BORGES. "El cuento policial, IX" . Dashiell HAMMETT: "Cosecha roja". Arthur CONAN DOYLE: "Las aventuras de Shrlock Holmes". Hellery QUEEN: "Cara a cara". Raymond CHANDLER: "El sueño eterno". Patricia IHGSMITH: Erle STANLEY GARDNER: "El cuchillo". "El caso del juguete mortífero". James HADLEY CHASE: "Impulso creador". "El secuestro de Miss Blandish". Nicholas BLAKE: "La bestia debe morir". Volumen 2: Prólogo de R. CHANDLER: " El simpl by AA.VV. (indirect) Has the (non-series) sequelHas the adaptationIs expanded inIs parodied inInspiredHas as a student's study guide
The iconic first novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times). A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in. No library descriptions found.
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my favorite examples of the language this type of book is known for are
when talking about an innocuous greenhouse: "The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men." ?!?! what?
and especially: "The General spoke again, slowly, using his strength as carefully as an out-of-work show-girl uses her last good pair of stockings."
"Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead."
"'He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.'" (