00000nam a2200000 a 4500 Chandler, Raymond aut Verfasser/-in Collected Stories with an introduction by John Bayley Chandler, Raymond New York Alfred A. Knopf 2002 Everyman's Library 257 When 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. 9781857152579 9781857152579 eng 257 Band 1336 Seiten