“Every crease is a story.”

Author
1888–1959
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at age 44, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime. All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once.
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The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler, 1939

Farewell, My Lovely
Raymond Chandler, 1940

The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler, 1953

The Lady in the Lake
Raymond Chandler, 1943

The High Window
Raymond Chandler, 1942

The Little Sister
Raymond Chandler, 1949

Playback
Raymond Chandler, 1958

Killer in the Rain
Raymond Chandler, 1964

The Simple Art of Murder
Raymond Chandler, 1950

The Raymond Chandler omnibus
Raymond Chandler, 1953

Trouble Is My Business
Raymond Chandler, 1972

The Oxford book of detective stories
Patricia Craig, Émile Gaboriau & others, 2000

Twelve American Crime Stories
Rosemary Herbert, Edgar Allan Poe & others, 1998

Poodle Springs
Raymond Chandler, 1989

Later Novels and Other Writings
Raymond Chandler, 1995

The Smell of Fear
Raymond Chandler, 1965

Pearls Are a Nuisance
Raymond Chandler, 1958

Selected letters of Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler, 1981

Great Stories of Mystery and Suspense
Raymond Chandler & Arthur Conan Doyle, 1974

The World's Greatest Detective Stories
Herbert Van Thal, Raymond Chandler & others, 1978

Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe
Raymond Chandler, 1988

Three Novels
Raymond Chandler, 1993

The midnight Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler, 1971

Collected Stories
Raymond Chandler, 2002

The Blue Dahlia
Raymond Chandler, 1976

Raymond Chandler speaking
Raymond Chandler, 1962

The Big Sleep and Other Novels
Raymond Chandler, 2008

Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles
Raymond Chandler, 1987

Four complete Philip Marlowe novels
Raymond Chandler, 1991

Raymond Chandler's Marlowe
Raymond Chandler, 2003

Raymond Chandler's unknown thriller
Raymond Chandler, 1985
Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler, 1986

Touble is my Business
Raymond Chandler, 1992

Little Sister, the
Raymond Chandler, 1995

Chandler Collection Vol 3
Raymond Chandler, 1995

The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler, 1976
The Annotated Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler, 2018

El Largo Adios
Raymond Chandler, 2005

The Raymond Chandler papers
Raymond Chandler, 2000

O longo adeus
Raymond Chandler, 2014

Pickup on Noon Street
Raymond Chandler, 1973

Red Wind
Raymond Chandler, 1946

The Long Good-bye
Raymond Chandler, 2010

La Dame du lac
Raymond Chandler, 1988

Goldfish
Raymond Chandler, 1995
Red Wind, a Collection of Short Stories
Raymond Chandler, 1946

Spanish blood
Raymond Chandler, 1946
Smart-aleck kill
Raymond Chandler, 1958
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