Raymond Thornton Chandler

July 23, 1888 (Chicago, Illinois) - March 26, 1959 (La Jolla, California)

Novels

Detective: Philip Marlowe

Chandler, Raymond,
--The Big Sleep, Knopf, New York, 1939. Cinema: The Big Sleep, 1946.
--Farewell, My Lovely, Knopf, New York, 1940. Cinema: Farewell, My Lovely, 1944, 1975.
--The High Window, Knopf, New York, 1942. Cinema: The Brasher Doubloon, 1946.
--The Lady in the Lake, Knopf, New York, 1943. Cinema: The Lady in the Lake, 1946.
--The Little Sister, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1949. Cinema: Marlowe, 1969.
--The Long Goodbye, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1953. Edgar Cinema: The Long Goodbye, 1973.
--Playback, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1958.

Chandler, Raymond, and Robert B. Parker,
--Poodle Springs, 1962/1989.

Screenplays

Chandler, Raymond,
--Double Indemnity, 1944. (with Billy Wilder)
--The Blue Dahlia, 1946. Edgar
--Playback, 1948.

Chandler, Raymond, with C. Ormonde,
--Strangers on a Train, 1951.

Movies

Chandler, Raymond,
--Murder, My Sweet, by John Paxton (RKO, 1945). Edgar, 1946. Based on Farewell, My Lovely
--Farewell, My Lovely, by David Zelag Goodman (AVCO-Embassy, 1975).

Original Short Fiction

Chandler, Raymond,
--Black Mask
--Dime Detective
--Unknown

Collections of Short Fiction

Chandler, Raymond,
--Five Murderers, Avon, New York, 1944.
--Five Sinister Characters, Avon, New York, 1945.
--Red Wind, World, New York, 1946.
--Spanish Blood, Finger Man, and Other Stories, Avon, New York, 1947.
--The Simple Art of Murder, Vintage, New York, 1950. ISBN: 0-394-75765-3
--Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels, edited by Frank MacShane, Library of America, New York, 1995. ISBN: 1-883011-07-8

Sources of Biographical and Bibliographical Information

Chandler, Raymond, Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels, edited by Frank MacShane, Library of America, New York, 1995. ISBN: 1-883011-07-8

Chandler, Raymond, Raymond Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings, edited by Frank MacShane, Library of America, New York, 1995. ISBN: 1-883011-08-6

Penzler, Otto, Collecting Mystery Fiction: Raymond Chandler, in The Armchair Detective, Spring, 1996.

Woodman, Tom, King's Gambit: Playing Chess and Playing Detective in Raymond Chandler's Work, in The Armchair Detective, Winter, 1997. * (article)

Hiney, Tom, Raymond Chandler: A Biography, Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1997. ISBN: 0-87113-690-2

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