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title: "The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback (Everyman's Library)"
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# The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback (Everyman's Library)

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The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback (Everyman's Library)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Brilliant! A joy to read!
  

*by I***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 27, 2018*

This is a wonderful volume. The four stories in the book are classics, a joy to read. The book also contains a good scholarly easy-to-read introduction. The $25.60 price means that each of the four tales cost a little over $6, cheap for what one is getting, hours of pleasure. The book itself looks great on my shelf.Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) published seven full-length novels during his lifetime along with some 25 short stories. His eighth full-length novel was completed and published by Robert B. Parker after his death. Chandler is considered by many to be the founder of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. Chandler cannibalized some of his short stories, such as combining two of his short stories to produce a full-length novel. He did so, for example, with “The Big Sleep,” combining the two short stories “Killer in the rain” (published in 1935) and “The Curtain” (published in 1936); and also inserted small parts of “Finger Man” and “Mandarin Jade.” “The Big Sleep,” a reference to Philip Marlowe’s attitude to death, was published in 1939 as his first novel as well as the first hard-boil crime novel with hard-nosed private detective Philip Marlowe. In 1950, Chandler wrote an introduction where he reflects on writing pulp mysteries like his own. These stories, he tells, stressed the atmosphere of the events, times, and places, rather than the plot. “(T)he scene outranked the plot…. The ideal mystery was one you would read if the end was missing.” In the good hard-boiled story there is “some very determined individual (who) makes it his business to see that justice is done.All of his novels, with the sole exception of his last novel Playback, which is in this book, published in 1958, were made into movies, some more than once.

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    Raymond Chandler wrote like a slumming angel who  walked the noir street of Los Angeles
  

*by C***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 3, 2019*

Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) and his great character Philip Marlowe belong together atop the high steep mountain of noir detective fiction. Chandler was Chicago born and English raised. He was an alcoholic master of the metaphor as his seven novels and many short stories featuring Marlowe take us to the dark streets, tough alleys and palatial homes of Hollywood royalty. Chandler is a master of hard boiled dialogue and sets scenes from jail cells to rooming houses to sleazy bars in the Los Angeles Southern California milieu of 1930s-1950s life.  This volume of Chandler's last four novels published by Everyman Library is a gem worthy of purchase and veneration at reading peerless prose.  The Lady in the Lake first published in 1944 finds Marlowe investigating the wife of a wealthy businessman. It was later turned into a fine film starring Robert Montgomery as Marlowe. The Little Sister is about a Midwest woman's quest to find her missing brother. The Long Goodbye features murder and deceit amid the Hollywood elite. Playback the final novel written by Chandler deals  with a client who wants Marlowe to find a missing woman. All these novels are classics and will provide the reader with hours of reading pleasure.

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    Enjoy Raymond Chandler's world of Noir
  

*by T***2 on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 15, 2016*

Read US service men were supplied with pocket size versions of selected Everyman Library titles. Supposedly some American GI's carried Everyman books during D-Day invasion. Everyman Library offers quality books which are worth the purchase price. I love Raymond Chandler's stories and the Phillip Marlowe character. Have read several biographies about Chandler and his wife Cissy, and found their lives almost as interesting as Ray's fiction. No doubt Chandler's knowledge about Los Angeles and the crime and corruption there influenced his writing greatly. Chandler's early education, astute observations of human nature, and his knack to transfer it so emphatically to paper made him the gold standard among crime writers. IMO if you're going to read just one Chandler book by all means make it 'The Big Sleep.' Note: Recommend the 'Library of America' books also.

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