Collected Stories of Raymond Chandler: Introduction by John Bayley-Fast Shipping

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The only complete edition of stories by the undisputedmaster of detective literature, collected here for the first time in one volume,including some stories that have been unavailable for decades.

When Raymond Chandlerturned to writing at the age of forty-five, he began by publishing stories in pulpmagazines such as “Black Mask” before later writing his famous novels. These storiesare where Chandler honed his art and developed his uniquely vivid underworld, peopledwith good cops and bad cops, informers and extortionists, lethally predatory blondesand redheads, and crime, sex, gambling, and alcohol in abundance. In addition tohis classic hard-boiled stories–in which his signature atmosphere of depravity andviolence swirls around the cool, intuitive loners whose type culminated in the famousdetective Philip Marlowe–Chandler also turned his hand to fantasy and even a gothicromance.

This rich treasury of twenty-five stories shows Chandler developing theterse, laconic, understated style that would serve him so well in his later masterpieces,and immerses the reader in the richly realized fictional universe that has becomean enduring part of our literary landscape