Raymond Chandler

Books

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  The Big Sleep1939

  His first novel and Philip Marlowe’s first case, set in Los Angeles.

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  Farewell, My Lovely1940

  Marlowe’s second case, filmed three times.

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  Pick-up on Noon Street1952

  Four stories, including the one whose sentence Betty Shannon guessed letter by letter.

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  The Long Goodbye1953

  The one Chandler, in a letter to a friend, called “my best book”.