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Adios Muneca
by Raymond Chandler

ISBN 8420672335 (84-206-7233-5)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Considerada por algunos críticos como la mejor novela de Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), la indagación en la corrupción que supone ADIÓS, MUÑECA (1940) supuso un paso más para el autor en su personal interpretación de las convenciones del género negro. Si en «El sueño eterno» (BA 0700) era un caso de chantaje el que servía de urdimbre para la acción de Philip Marlowe, en «Adiós, muñeca» será la búsqueda que emprende, tras salir de la cárcel, de su «pequeña Velma» el singular gigante Moose Malloy («Incluso en Central Avenue, que no es la calle más discreta del mundo en materia de vestimenta, pasaba tan inadvertido como una tarántula en un trozo de bizcocho») la que desencadene un siniestro recorrido que desenmascara los resortes del poder en una ciudad en la que «las leyes se hacen para los que pagan». [via]
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The Beaver Papers: The Story of the Lost Season
by Gerard Jones, Will Jacobs

ISBN 0517549913 (0-517-54991-3)
Softcover, Random House Value Pub

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The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler

ISBN 1417711302 (1-4177-1130-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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"His thin, claw-like hands were folded loosely on the rug, purple-nailed. A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock." Published in 1939, when Raymond Chandler was 50, this is the first of the Philip Marlowe novels. Its bursts of sex, violence, and explosively direct prose changed detective fiction forever. "She was trouble. She was tall and rangy and strong-looking. Her hair was black and wiry and parted in the middle. She had a good mouth and a good chin. There was a sulky droop to her lips and the lower lip was full." [via]
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Blue Moon
by Laurell K. Hamilton

ISBN 0515134457 (0-515-13445-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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Anita Blake makes a living raising the dead. She also executes rogue vampires and villains among the local were-folk. Marks bind her to Jean-Claude, the Master vampire of St. Louis and her lover, and to her ex-fiancé, a powerful werewolf who heads up the local pack. Anita shares some of their magic, and her own power over the dead keeps growing. But so does the body count and the situations that force Anita to bend or break her own rules.
In Blue Moon, Anita's ex Richard is jailed in Tennessee, accused of rape. When Anita arrives with a lawyer and an entourage of vampires and 'weres' supplied by Jean-Claude, it's clear that something is rotten in Myerton. The local cops are corrupt, and the trolls Richard was studying are threatened. But if she sticks around to investigate, the local Master vampire will attack her and her friends. The local werewolf clan isn't rushing to welcome her either, and her self-control is going to the, um, wolves.
Blue Moon is the eighth book in Hamilton's Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series; newcomers should start with earlier books. The protagonists' development and their relationships to each other and to the large cast of continuing secondary characters are what make these books so compelling. Be warned--there's steamy sex and graphic violence here, though Anita does reflect on her moral position. But if dark urban fantasy featuring those who hunt the night appeals, pounce on this series. --Nona Vero [via]
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- Blue Moon: ISBN 0441005748 (0-441-00574-8)
  Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
- Blue Moon: ISBN 0515134457 (0-515-13445-7)
  Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
Collected Stories
by Raymond Chandler, John Bayley

ISBN 0375415009 (0-375-41500-9)
Hardcover, Everymans Library

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Crime & Mystery
by H. R. F. Keating

ISBN 0786703660 (0-7867-0366-0)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub

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Farewell, My Lovely
by Raymond Chandler

ISBN 0394758277 (0-394-75827-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Private Detective Philip Marlow is in trouble. He witnesses a murder and knows who the killer is, but for some reason the police don't want to find the murderer, so Marlowe decides to find out for himself. "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. "Penguin Readers" are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from "Easystarts" with a 200-word vocabulary, to Level 6 (Advanced) with a 3000-word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of three sub-categories: "Contemporary", "Classics" or "Originals". At the end of each book there is a section of enjoyable exercises focusing on vocabulary building, comprehension, discussion and writing. Some titles in the series are available with an accompanying audio cassette, or in a book and cassette pack. Additionally, selected titles have free accompanying "Penguin Readers Factsheets" which provide stimulating exercise material for students, as well as suggestions for teachers on how to exploit the Readers in class. [via]
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High Window
by Raymond Chandler

ISBN 0394758269 (0-394-75826-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Ed Bishop stars as Philip Marlowe in this powerfully atmospheric BBC Radio dramatization of Raymond Chandler's novel about the cynical, worldweary, wisecracking shamus whose honesty in a dishonest world sent him down the mean streets again and again in search of some kind of justice. Linda Conquest was very tough, very kissable, and very missing, along with one very valuable old coin. But for some reason the interested parties didn't seem too interested in finding either of them. Especially when the trail led to the underworld and beyond. And by then Marlowe was knee deep in dead men...
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- High Window: ISBN 0394721411 (0-394-72141-1)
  Hardcover, Vintage Books
- High Window: ISBN 0394758269 (0-394-75826-9)
  Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Lady in the Lake
by Raymond Chandler

ISBN 0394758250 (0-394-75825-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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A beautiful, historically accurate edition of the modern classic first published in 1943 reproduces the original and offers an alternative for those who love great old books and want to relive Philip Marlowe's strange and puzzling search for the missing woman. [via]
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Lancelot
by Walker Percy

ISBN 0312243073 (0-312-24307-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr

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"A modern knight-errant on a quest after evil . . . Convincing and chilling." The New York Times Book Review
Lancelot Andrewes Lamar, a disenchanted liberal lawyer, finds himself confined in a "nuthouse" with memories that don't seem worth remembering until a visit from an old friend and classmate gives him the opportunity to recount his journey of dark violence. It began the day he accidentally discovered he was not the father of his youngest daughter. That discovery touched off his obsession to reverse the degeneration of modern America and begin a new age of chivalry and romance. With ever-increasing fury, Lancelot would become a shining knight -- not of romance, but of revenge . . . [via]
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The Life of Raymond Chandler
by Frank MacShane

ISBN 0140047913 (0-14-004791-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA

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Little Sister
by Raymond Chandler

ISBN 039475767X (0-394-75767-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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"The Little Sister" is a classic detective novel by the master of hard-boiled crime. Her name is Orfamay Quest and she's come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or leastways that's what she tells PI Philip Marlowe, offering him a measly twenty bucks for the privilege. But Marlowe's feeling charitable - though it's not long before he wishes he wasn't so sweet. You see, Orrin's trail leads Marlowe to luscious movie starlets, uppity gangsters, suspicious cops and corpses with ice picks jammed in their necks. When trouble comes calling, sometimes it's best to pretend to be out..."Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence". ("Daily Telegraph"). "One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain". ("Sunday Times"). "Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes". (Anthony Burgess). 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. His books include "The Big Sleep", "The Little Sister", "Farewell", "My Lovely", "The Long Goodbye", "The Lady in the Lake", "Playback", "Killer in the Rain", "The High Window" and "Trouble is My Business". [via]
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- The Little Sister: ISBN 0345322177 (0-345-32217-7)
  Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
- Little Sister: ISBN 039475767X (0-394-75767-X)
  Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler

ISBN 0394757688 (0-394-75768-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he's divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe. [via]
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- The Long Goodbye: ISBN 0345349385 (0-345-34938-5)
  Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
- The Long Goodbye: ISBN 0394757688 (0-394-75768-8)
  Softcover, Random House Inc
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Playback
by Raymond Chandler

ISBN 0394757661 (0-394-75766-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never herd of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but decides he prefers to help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it.

"Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence:" -- Ross Macdonald [via]
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- Playback: ISBN 0345349334 (0-345-34933-4)
  Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
- Playback: ISBN 0394757661 (0-394-75766-1)
  Softcover, Random House Inc
Raymond Chandler: A Biography
by Tom Hiney

ISBN 0802136370 (0-8021-3637-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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- Raymond Chandler: A Biography: ISBN 0871136902 (0-87113-690-2)
  Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
- Raymond Chandler: A Biography: ISBN 0802136370 (0-8021-3637-0)
  Softcover, Grove Pr
Raymond Chandler and Film
by William Luhr

ISBN 0804464472 (0-8044-6447-2)
Softcover, F. Ungar Pub Co

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Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe
by Michael Lark

ISBN 0684829339 (0-684-82933-9)
Softcover, Fireside

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Remember those great film adaptations of Raymond Chandler's work? Who could forget Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep or Dick Powell playing the same character in Farewell, My Lovely? In Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: The Little Sister, illustrator Michael Lark has given us a brand-new incarnation of Chandler's famous fictional detective, a "comic book" version of Chandler's 1949 mystery. When Orfamay Quest hires Marlowe to find her missing brother, the case at first seems pretty straightforward, but--beset by mobsters, blackmailers, and murder--Marlowe soon discovers that a missing person is the least of his troubles.
The Little Sister was not one of Raymond Chandler's best efforts, but Michael Lark has effectively tailored the text to clarify the original story, emphasizing through his "comic noir" artwork the dark, dangerous environs, both physical and psychological, in which Philip Marlowe still moves. [via]
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- Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: ISBN 0684829339 (0-684-82933-9)
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The Simple Art of Murder
by Raymond Chandler

ISBN 0394757653 (0-394-75765-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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- The Simple Art of Murder: ISBN 0345349377 (0-345-34937-7)
  Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
- The Simple Art of Murder: ISBN 0394757653 (0-394-75765-3)
  Softcover, Vintage Books
Trouble Is My Business
by Raymond Chandler

ISBN 0394757645 (0-394-75764-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Adios Muneca
by Raymond Chandler, Cesar Aira

ISBN 9500425181 (950-04-2518-1)
Softcover, Emece

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La Dama Del Lago/ The Lady in the Lake
by Raymond Chandler

ISBN 8420672300 (84-206-7230-0)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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El sueno eterno/ The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler

ISBN 8420672319 (84-206-7231-9)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Publicada en 1939, EL SUEÑO ETERNO supuso la fulgurante irrupción de Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) en el ámbito de la novela negra. Tomando como modelo en muchos aspectos a Dashiell Hammett, principalmente en la concepción de esta clase de relatos como reflejo y crítica de una sociedad más que como propuesta de acertijo o enigma a resolver, Chandler inició con su apuesta por su detective Philip Marlowe, con su inconfundible sentido del humor, una de las vetas más ricas del género. En «El sueño eterno» -novela repleta de nervio y de ingeniosos diálogos- es un caso de chantaje el que lleva a Marlowe a asomarse a las alcantarillas de una sociedad en apariencia espléndida. [via]
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El Sueno Eterno/the Eternal Dream
by Raymond Chandler

ISBN 950042522X (950-04-2522-X)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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La Ventana Alta
by Raymond Chandler

ISBN 8420673323 (84-206-7332-3)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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