Type: fiction
Status: liked
Author: Raymond Chandler
Description: The epitome of the hard- boiled detective novel. But it's not hokey, maybe because it...
2008-02-19
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The Big Sleep
"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.
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by spooky
Type: fiction
Status: —
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Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Raymond Chandler
Tags: mystery classic detective
Description: The first novel featuring hardboiled detective Philip Marlowe, in which he is called in to...
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by joeqpublicus
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Raymond Chandler
Description: "His thin, claw-like hands were folded loosely on the rug, purple-nailed. A few locks...
2005-09-11
by war2d2
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Raymond Chandler
Description: Chandler's first novel, and the first one of his that I ever read. It's been years,...
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