Nobody but Chandler could have created a private eye hero as cool as Philip Marlowe, but writers have been trying ever since the author's precedent-setting '40s crime novels were published. Along with Dashiell Hammett, Chandler is revered as a noir father figure; his creation of a romantic L.A. full of dangerous women and crooked characters is so woven into modern consciousness that it's easy to forget that it was fictional.

The Big Sleep
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The Long Goodbye
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Farewell, My Lovely
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Poodle Springs
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The Lady in the Lake
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The High Window
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The Little Sister
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Trouble Is My Business
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Playback
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Raymond Chandler Omnibus
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The Simple Art of Murder
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Killer in the Rain
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Hard Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories
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Later Novels and Other Writings: The Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister / The Long Goodbye / Playback / Double Indemnity (screenplay) / Selected Essays and Letters
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The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely
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Stories and Early Novels: Pulp Stories / The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window
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13 Short Mystery Novels
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Noon Street Nemesis
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Collected Stories (Everyman's Library Classics)
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Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics
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Hard-Boiled Detectives: 23 Great Stories from Dime Detective Magazine
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The Blue Dahlia
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The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words
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The Big Sleep and Other Novels
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The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window
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The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler
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The Midnight Raymond Chandler.
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Double Indemnity: The Complete Screenplay
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The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback
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Raymond Chandler's Trouble Is My Business
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