Raymond Chandler

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1934
  • Latest Book:
    May 2025
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About the Author

Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago of an American Quaker father and an Irish Quaker mother. At an early age he went to England and had his schooling at Dulwich College, completing his education in France and Germany.

He followed many professions: teacher, book reviewer, poet, paragraph writer, essayist, soldier in a Canadian infantry regiment, student pilot, accountant, oil execcutive, and 'pulp writer'.
He latterly made his home in the United States, in the Southern California area which forms the background of his books.

Full Series List in Order

Philip Marlowe

The Big Sleep (1939)
Trouble Is My Business (1939)
Farewell, My Lovely (1940)
The Lady in the Lake (1943)
The Simple Art of Murder (1950)
The Long Goodbye (1955)
Playback (1958)
High Window (Jun-1984)
The Little Sister (Aug-1988)

Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • I'll Be Waiting

    in Murderous Schemes

    When plotting a murder (figuratively speaking), the mystery writer has at hand any number of M.O.'s including such tried and true conventions as the locked room, the unbreakable alibi, the double bluff, the mistaken identity, and many others. Indeed,...

  • The Big Sleep

    • / Hard-Boiled
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    Philip Marlowe

    When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complicatio...

  • Trouble Is My Business

    • / Hard-Boiled
    • Buy Buy
    Philip Marlowe

    The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.This collection by ...

  • Farewell, My Lovely

    • / Hard-Boiled
    • Buy Buy
    Philip Marlowe

    The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.Philip Marlowe's ab...

  • The Lady in the Lake

    • / Hard-Boiled
    • Buy Buy
    Philip Marlowe

    The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.In The Lady in the ...

  • The Simple Art of Murder

    • / Hard-Boiled
    • Buy Buy
    Philip Marlowe

    The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the forthcoming film Marlowe, starring Liam NeesonIn ...

  • The Long Goodbye

    • / Hard-Boiled
    • Buy Buy
    Philip Marlowe

    ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME •  The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuri...

  • Playback

    • / Hard-Boiled
    • Buy Buy
    Philip Marlowe

    Betty Mayfield is blond and beautiful and has just been found guilty of murdering her husband. But when the jundge realizes the jury is terrified of her father-in-law--the man who owns everything in this small North Carolina town--he overturns the ve...

  • The Coral Kill



  • Killer in the Rain

    It was in the pulp detective magazines of the 1930s that Raymond Chandler's definitive take on the hard-boiled detective story first appeared. Here then, from the well-thumbed pages of `Black Mask' and `Dime Detective Magazine', are eight of his fine...

  • Pickup on Noon Street

  • High Window

    Philip Marlowe

    Raymond Chandler's novel about the cynical, world-weary, wise-cracking shamus whose honesty in a dishonest world sent him down the mean streets again and again in search of some kind of justice. Linda Conquest was very tough, very kissable, and...

  • Four Comp Philip Marlowe N

  • The Little Sister

    Philip Marlowe

    The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.In noir master Raym...

  • Raymond Chandler: Four Complete Novels

  • The Black Mask Murders

  • Red Wind

    (Pandora has published Korean translation of English classic literature for Korean readers. Our translation in Korean is the first of its kind and complete and up-to-date.)<... 소개> Red Wind by Raymond Chanlder (1938) 챈"러의 단편 ' 가...

  • Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings: The Lady in the Lake / Thelittle Sister / The Long Goodbye / Playback / Double Indemnity /Selected Essays

    With humor, along with an unerring sense of dialogue and the telling details of dress and behavior, Raymond Chandler created a distinctive fictional universe out of the dark side of sunlit Los Angeles. In the process, he transformed both crime writin...

  • The Marble Orchard



  • Mandarin's Jade & Other Stories

  • Bay City Blues & No Crime in the Mountains

    In 'No Crime In The Mountains' proceeds with an investigation despite the fact that his client, who had sent a retainer with his request for a meeting, turns up at the appointed place dead. 'I had a hundred dollars to earn, after all.' With a decease...

  • Sharks Never Sleep

  • Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe

    Authorized by the estate of the late Raymond Chandler, this volume reveals the missing life history and detective adventures of Philip Marlowe, one of the 20th century's most enduring and beloved characters. Marlowe is the quintessential American...

  • Michael Phillips

  • The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler

    Over the course of two prolific decades--from the time of his humble beginnings as a pulp writer for The Black Mask through the creation of his celebrated noir masterworks The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely to the Hollywood years of the 1940s--the...

  • The Long Good-bye

    'A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness. It all depends on where you sit and what your own private score is. I didn't have one. I didn't care'Down-and-out drunk Terry Lenn...

  • Goldfish

    In this short story from Raymond Chandler’s Trouble is My Business, the iconic private eye, Philip Marlowe, takes up the case of the Leander Pearls. Stolen decades ago, the thief was caught but the pearls themselves were never recovered. With the $...

  • Raymond Chandler's Trouble Is My Business

    The hard-boiled world of Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler’s iconic private eye, comes to vivid life in this brilliant graphic novel adaptation of the classic noir tale.In 1940s Los Angeles, a sour-faced millionaire hires Philip Marlowe, a hard-boil...

Award-Winning Books by Raymond Chandler

The Long Goodbye
1955 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Raymond Chandler has published 28 books.

The next book by Raymond Chandler, Raymond Chandler's Trouble Is My Business, will be published in May 2025.

The first book by Raymond Chandler, I'll Be Waiting, was published in January 1934.

Yes. Raymond Chandler has 1 series.
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