Raymond Chandler
(1888 - 1959)
| Poodle Springs (first 4 chapters only; novel later completed and published by Robert Parker. ) | Philip Marlowe | novel | |
 The Big Sleep | 1939 | Philip Marlowe | novel |
| Farewell, My Lovely Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard. | 1940 | Philip Marlowe | novel |
| The High Window A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortune—the elements don't quite add up until Marlowe discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and the worst kind of human exploitation. "Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude."-- Erle Stanley Gardner "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 | 1942) | Philip Marlowe | novel |
| The Lady In The Lake A couple of missing wives—one a rich man's and one a poor man's—become the objects of 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. | 1943 | Philip Marlowe | novel |
| The Little Sister Her name is Orfamay Quest and she's come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or least ways 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. You see, Orrin's trail leads Marlowe to luscious movie starlets, uppity gangsters, suspicious cops and corpses with ice picks jammed in their necks. When trouble comes calling, sometimes it's best to pretend to be out. | 1949 | Philip Marlowe | novel |
| The Long Goodbye Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he's divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe. | 1954 | Philip Marlowe | novel |
| Playback Stalking the tawdry neon wilderness of forties and fifties Los Angeles, Raymond Chandler's hard-drinking, wise-cracking Phillip Marlowe is one of the world's most famous fictional detectives. "Playback" finds Marlowe mixing business with pleasure - getting paid to follow a mysterious and lovely red-head named Eleanor King. And wherever Miss King goes, trouble seems to follow. But she's easy on the eye and Marlowe's happy to do as he's told, all in the name of chivalry, of course. But one dead body later and what started out as a lazy afternoon's snooping soon becomes a deadly cocktail of blackmail, lies, mistaken identity - and murder... | 1959 | Philip Marlowe | novel |
| Double Indemnity (from the novella by James M Cain) | screenplays | ||
| And Now Tomorrow (with Frank Partos) | screenplays | ||
| The Unseen (with Hager Wilde) | screenplays | ||
| The Blue Dahlia (original, based in part on a famous murder case which remains unsolved) | screenplays | ||
| The Lady in The Lake (completed by Steve Fisher) | screenplays | ||
| The Innocent Mrs Duff | screenplays |