{"product_id":"collected-stories-of-raymond-chandler-raymond-chandler-9780375415005","title":"Collected Stories of Raymond Chandler: Introduction by John Bayley","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe only complete edition of stories by the undisputed master of detective literature, collected here for the first time in one volume, including some stories that have been unavailable for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Raymond Chandler turned to writing at the age of forty-five, he began by publishing stories in pulp magazines such as \"Black Mask\" before later writing his famous novels. These stories are where Chandler honed his art and developed his uniquely vivid underworld, peopled with good cops and bad cops, informers and extortionists, lethally predatory blondes and redheads, and crime, sex, gambling, and alcohol in abundance. In addition to his classic hard-boiled stories-in which his signature atmosphere of depravity and violence swirls around the cool, intuitive loners whose type culminated in the famous detective Philip Marlowe-Chandler also turned his hand to fantasy and even a gothic romance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis rich treasury of twenty-five stories shows Chandler developing the terse, 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 become an enduring part of our literary landscape\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Raymond Chandler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0375415009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375415005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Everyman's Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 1336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.22h x 5.40w x 2.34d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2002 pg. 1175\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2002 pg. 5\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2002 pg. 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2002 pg. 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2003 pg. 1511","brand":"Raymond Chandler","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44050972016895,"sku":"9780375415005","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_37a0060a-b957-4b6c-8edb-fccdf9ad4f03.jpg?v=1685010327","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/collected-stories-of-raymond-chandler-raymond-chandler-9780375415005","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}