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Informationen zum Autor Raymond Chandler Klappentext Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction. Zusammenfassung Stalking the tawdry neon wilderness of forties and fifties Los Angeles, Raymond Chandler's hard-drinking, wise-cracking Phillip Marlowe is one of the world's most famous fictional detectives. Playback finds Marlowe mixing business with pleasure - getting paid to follow a mysterious and lovely red-head named Eleanor King.

About the author

Raymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, but moved to England with his family when he was twelve, where he attended Dulwich College, alma mater to some of the twentieth century's most renowned writers. Returning to America in 1912, he settled in California, worked in a number of jobs, and later married. It was during the Depression era that he seriously turned his hand to writing, and his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later, when he was fifty, by his first novel, The Big Sleep. Chandler died in 1959, having established himself as the finest crime writer in America.

Product details

• Authors: Raymond Chandler, Chandler Raymond, Kathy Reichs
• Assisted by: Kathy Reichs (Introduction), Reichs Kathy (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2011
• EAN: 9780241956250
• ISBN: 978-0-241-95625-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Phillip Marlowe
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Classics, Crime and mystery fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction