Name: The Simple art of Murder
SKU: 1533154
Price: 22.90 EUR
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Author: Raymond Chandler
ISBN: 9780394757650

Type

Physical Book

Author

Raymond Chandler

Publisher

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Year

1988

Language

English

Pages

384

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.1x12.8x2 cm

Weight

0.40 kg.

ISBN

0394757653

ISBN13

9780394757650

Synopsis "The Simple art of Murder "

The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the quintessential urban private eye (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe - Featuring the iconic character that inspired the forthcoming film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson In The Simple Art of Murder, which was prefaced by the famous Atlantic Monthly essay of the same name, noir master Raymond Chandler argues the virtues of the hard-boiled detective novel, and this collection, mostly drawn from stories he wrote for the pulps, demonstrates Chandler's imaginative, entertaining facility with the form. Included are the classic stories Spanish Blood, Pearls Are a Nuisance, and Guns at Cyrano's, among others.

Raymond Chandler

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Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American writer of hard-boiled fiction. He was a British-American novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an executive at an oil company during the Great Depression.

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