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She has a lead on the jewels and wants Marlowe to help find them for a share of the $25K insurance reward - big money in the 1930s! Then her contact, Peeler Mardo, is found dead. This is all recounted to Marlowe by Kathy Horne, a former police woman who lost her job for marrying a petty criminal. During shipping, there was a robbery and murder Wally Sype was caught in British Columbia and sentenced to life. This one relates to a theft years earlier of two valuable jewels, the Leander pearls. With the popularity of the detective Phillip Marlowe novels which came out later, Chandler changed most of the short story leads to Marlowe when re-publication occurred. It first appeared in the pulp mystery magazine, "Black Mask," in 1936 and starred Carmady.

"Goldfish" is a novella published in a collection in 1950 under the title "Trouble is My Business." This is a review of that 45 page story. The Long Goodbye is praised within an anthology of American crime stories as "arguably the first book since Hammett's The Glass Key, published more than twenty years earlier, to qualify as a serious and significant mainstream novel that just happened to possess elements of mystery".Ĥ Stars. Some of Chandler's novels are considered to be important literary works, and three are often considered to be masterpieces: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Little Sister (1949), and The Long Goodbye (1953). Chandler's Philip Marlowe, along with Hammett's Sam Spade, are considered by some to be synonymous with "private detective," both having been played on screen by Humphrey Bogart, whom many considered to be the quintessential Marlowe. Cain and other Black Mask writers, of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. He died on March 26, 1959, in La Jolla, California.Ĭhandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature, and is considered by many to be a founder, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. In the year before he died, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. All but Playback have been realized into motion pictures, some several times. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published just seven full novels during his lifetime (though an eighth in progress at his death was completed by Robert B. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. In 1932, at age forty-four, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Depression.

Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter.