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Mrs. Murdock, eine reiche Witwe aus Pasadena, hat einen doppelten Auftrag für Philip Marlowe: Ihre Schwiegertochter, eine ehemalige Nachtklub-Sängerin, ist verschwunden - und gleichzeitig eine alte, wertvolle Goldmünze. Beide soll der Privatdetektiv dingfest machen. Was wie ein üblicher Auftrag begann, entwickelt sich schon bald zu einer atemberaubenden Achterbahnfahrt. Marlowes Sinn für Recht und Gerechtigkeit steht auf dem Prüfstand.

To jego ostatnia robota: Philip Marlowe ma śledzić młodą kobietę, nie zna jednak powodu, dla którego zleceniodawcy zależy na tym, żeby nie spuszczać jej z oka. Detektyw wyjeżdża z Los Angeles i trafia do nadmorskiego kurortu Esmeralda. Szybko zdaje sobie sprawę, że prawdopodobnie gra po niewłaściwej stronie. W dodatku on też jest śledzony. Ostatnia powieść Raymonda Chandlera, napisana u schyłku życia, po śmierci ukochanej żony. Kameralna, wyciszona, przejmująca do głębi. Niepodrabialna melancholia słonecznej Kalifornii lat pięćdziesiątych XX wieku, tęsknota za...

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The iconic first novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times).

A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.

"Chandler writes] like a slumming angel and invest s] the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence." --Ross MacDonald

"Raymond Chandler has given us a detective who is hard-boiled enough to be convincing . . . and that is no mean achievement." --The New York Times

When private detective Philip Marlowe's latest client, Orfamay Quest, hires him to find her missing brother for the paltry sum of twenty dollars, Marlowe discovers that it's far from a simple missing persons case. Not when it involves mobsters, blackmail, beautiful women . . ....

Philip Marlowe, a private detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s, as he takes on a case involving a paralysed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail and murder.

Her name is Orfamay Quest and she's come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or leastways that's what she tells PI Philip Marlowe, offering him a measly twenty bucks for the privilege. But Marlowe's feeling charitable - though it's not long before he wishes he wasn't so sweet.

Elizabeth Murdock has a rare gold coin to find called a Brasher Doubloon. That's the simple part - except that each time the Doubloon pops up, so does a murder. Soon Marlowe's got a full-scale tradedy on his hands.

Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear.

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Raymond Chandler's first three novels, published here in one volume, established his reputation as an unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction.

The Big Sleep, Chandler's first novel, introduces Philip Marlowe, a private detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s, as he takes on a case involving a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder. In Farewell, My Lovely, Marlowe deals with the gambling circuit, a murder he stumbles upon, and three very beautiful but potentially...

Crime fiction master Raymond Chandler's final novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times).

In noir master Raymond Chandler's Playback, Philip Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never heard of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but then decides he'd rather help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it.

"Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence:...

Crime fiction master Raymond Chandler's fourth novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times).

In The Lady in the Lake, hardboiled crime fiction master Raymond Chandler brings us the story of a couple of missing wives--one a rich man's and one a poor man's--who have become the objects of Philip Marlowe's investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be dead. Marlowe's not sure he cares about either one, but he's not paid to care.

The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first in his acclaimed series about detective Philip Marlowe. The work has been adapted twice into film, once in 1946 and again in 1978. The story is noted for its complexity, with many characters double-crossing each other and many secrets being exposed throughout the narrative. The title is a euphemism for death; it refers to a rumination in the book about "sleeping the big sleep." (wikipedia.org)