Full name: Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: A Centennial Celebration

Author: Byron Preiss Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Anthology, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Google Books LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9780394573274 9781596875357 0394573277 1596875356

Authorized by the estate of the late Raymond Chandler, this volume reveals the missing life history and detective adventures of Philip Marlowe, one of the 20th century's most enduring and beloved characters. Marlowe is the quintessential American detective: cynical yet idealistic; romantic yet full of despair; a gentleman capable of rough violence. The stories are written by some of the detective-mystery genre's leading lights, including Max Allan Collins, Sara Paretsky, Roger L. Simon, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Robert Crais, Edward Hoch, Ed Gorman, Eric Van Lustbader, Loren Estleman, Simon Brett, and Joyce Harrington. The final story in the volume is Raymond Chandler's last Marlowe adventure: The Pencil. The stories run chronologically through the career of Marlowe, from 1935 through 1960. These are classic Marlowe tales of betrayal, mistrust, and double-dealing on the seamy side of Los Angeles Similar books: Nightmare Town by Dashiell Hammett Killer in the Rain by Raymond Chandler The Big Knockover by Dashiell Hammett Collected Stories by Raymond Chandler The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler Trouble Is My Business by Raymond Chandler The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps by Otto Penzler The Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett The Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction by Edward Gorman The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction by Maxim Jakubowski The wrong case by James Crumley D.C. Noir by George Pelecanos Vengeance Is Mine by Mickey Spillane Crime Stories from the Strand by Geraldine Beare Cropper's Cabin by Jim Thompson Twisted Twenty-Six by Janet Evanovich The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny Red Julie by J. A. Whiting St. Nick by Alan Russell The Accounting by William Lashner