Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler is arguably the best American pulp novelist. His prose is so acutely visual, his characters so raw and intense that it is small wonder that all but one of his books have been made into movies. And his hero Philip Marlowe has graduated into American legend. Together with its companion volume (Stories …

"Killer in the Rain" refers to a collection of short stories, including the eponymous title story, written by hard-boiled detective fiction author Raymond Chandler. The collection features eight short stories originally published in pulp magazines between 1935 and 1941. At Chandler's request, the stories remained …

Het grote slapen is een in 1939 gepubliceerde hard-boiled detectiveroman van Raymond Chandler. Het is de eerste roman waarin Chandler het personage Philip Marlowe opvoert. Het boek werd tweemaal verfilmd: eerst als de film noir The Big Sleep, gevolgd door de remake The Big Sleep. De roman wordt vermeld op Le Mondes …