Killer in the Rain

Informationen zum Autor 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. 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 It was in the pulp detective magazines of the 1930s that the author's definitive take on the hard-boiled detective story first appeared. This title includes stories that range from the well-thumbed pages of 'Black Mask' and 'Dime Detective Magazine', including 'The Man Who Liked Dogs', 'The Lady in the Lake' and 'Bay City Blues'.

Product details

• Authors: Raymond Chandler, Chandler Raymond, Peter Robinson
• Assisted by: Peter Robinson (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.10.2011
• EAN: 9780241956311
• ISBN: 978-0-241-95631-1
• No. of pages: 592
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 36 mm
• Series: Philip Marlowe; Philip Marlowe; Phillip Marlowe
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction