Author: RAYMOND CHANDLER
Translator: Hyeonju Park
Publisher: Book House
655 pages.
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About This Book
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.
"Raymond Chandler is a master." --The New
York Times
"[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered." --The New Yorker
"Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up,
hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious." --Robert
B. Parker, The New York Times Book Review
"Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye." --Los Angeles
Times
"Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An
original. . . . A great artist." ?The Boston Book Review
About The Author
Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888 - 1959) was the master practitioner of American
hard-boiled crime fiction. Although he was born in Chicago, Chandler spent most
of his boyhood and youth in England where he attended Dulwich College and later
worked as a freelance journalist for The Westminster Gazette and The Spectator.
During World War I, Chandler served in France with the First Division of the
Canadian Expeditionary Force, transferring later to the Royal Flying Corps (R.
A. F.). In 1919 he returned to the United States, settling in California, where
he eventually became director of a number of independent oil companies. The
Depression put an end to his career, and in 1933, at the age of forty-five, he
turned to writing fiction, publishing his first stories in Black Mask.
Chandlers detective stories often starred the brash but honorable Philip
Marlowe (introduced in 1939 in his first novel, The Big Sleep) and were noted
for their literate presentation and dead-on critical eye. Never a prolific
writer, Chandler published only one collection of stories and seven novels in
his lifetime. Some of Chandlers novels, like The Big Sleep, were made into
classic movies which helped define the film noir style. In the last year of his
life he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. He died in La
Jolla, California on March 26, 1959.
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