Raymond Chandler

Better known as the man who created famous private detective Philip Marlowe, character which became a synonym for private detectives equally in written form and on film. Truly a memorable character which, in my early youth before I discovered Carl Wilcox, played an important role in my growing up.

BOOKS

• The Big Sleep (1939)...
• Farewell, My Lovely (1940)...
• The High Window (1942)
• The Lady in the Lake (1943)
• The Little Sister (1949)
• The Long Goodbye (1953)
• Playback (1958)

STORIES

• "Blackmailers Don't Shoot" (December 1933, Black Mask; Mallory)
• "Smart-Aleck Kill" (July 1934, Black Mask; Mallory)
• "Finger Man" (October 1934, Black Mask; Carmady)
• "Killer in the Rain" (January 1935, Black Mask; Carmady)
• "Nevada Gas" (June 1935, Black Mask)
• "Spanish Blood" (November 1935, Black Mask)
• "Guns at Cyrano's" (January 1936, Black Mask; Ted Malvern)
• "The Man Who Liked Dogs" (March 1936, Black Mask; Carmady)
• "Noon Street Nemesis" (May 30, 1936, Detective Fiction Weekly; AKA Pick-up on Noon Street)
• "Goldfish" (June 1936, Black Mask)
• "The Curtain" (September 1936, Black Mask; Carmady)
• "Try the Girl" (January 1937, Black Mask; Carmady)
• "Mandarin's Jade" (November 1937, Dime Detective Magazine; John Dalmas)
• "Red Wind" (January 1938, Dime Detective Magazine: John Dalmas)
• "The King in Yellow" (Dime Detective Magazine, March 1938)
• "Bay City Blues" (June 1938; Dime Detective Magazine; John Dalmas)
• "The Lady in the Lake" (January 1939, Dime Detective Magazine; John Dalmas)
• "Pearls Are a Nuisance" (April 1939, Dime Detective Magazine, )
• "Trouble Is My Business" (August 1939, Dime Detective Magazine; John Dalmas)
• "I'll Be Waiting" (October 14, 1939, Saturday Evening Post)
• "The Bronze Door" (November 1939)
• "No Crime in the Mountains" (September 1941, Detective Story, John Evans)
• "Marlowe Takes on the Syndicate" (1958) (April 6-10, 1959; London Daily Mail; as "Wrong Pidgeon" in February 1961, Manhunt; AKA "The Pencil")

MARLOWE BY OTHER WRITERS 

• Ten Percent of Life (1987, by Hiber Conteris)
• Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe-A Centennial Celebration (1988, Edited by Byron Preiss)
• Poodle Springs (1989, by Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker)
• Perchance to Dream (1991, by Robert B. Parker)
• "The Perfect Crime" (by Max Allan Collins)
• "The Black-Eyed Blonde" (by Benjamin M. Schutz)
• "Gun Music" (by Loren D. Estleman)
• "Saving Grace" (by Joyce Harrington)
• "Malibu Tag Team" (by Jonathan Valin)
• "Sad-Eyed Blonde" (by Dick Lochte)
• "The Empty Sleeve" (by W.R. Philbrick)
• "Dealer's Choice" (by Sara Paretsky)
• "Red Rock" (by Julie Smith)
• "The Deepest South" (by Paco Ignacio Taibo II)
• "Consultation In The Dark" (by Francis M. Nevins)
• "In the Jungle of Cities" (by Roger L. Simon)
• "Star Bright" (by John Lutz)
• "Stardust Kill" (by Simon Brett)
• "Locker 246" (by Robert J. Randisi)
• "Bitter Lemons" (by Stuart Kaminsky)
• "The Man Who Knew Dick Bong" (by Robert Crais)
• "Essence D'Orient" (by Edward D. Hoch)
• "In the Line of Duty" (by Jeremiah Healy)
• "The Alibi" (by Ed Gorman)
• "The Devil's Playground" (by James Grady)
• "Asia" by Eric Lustbader)
• "Mice" (by Robert Campbell)

MOVIES

• MURDER MY SWEET
  (UK title: Farewell, My Lovely)
  (1944, RKO)
  Screenplay by John Paxton
  Directed by Edward Dmytryk
  Based on the novel by Raymond Chandler
  Starring Dick Powell as PHILIP MARLOWE
  Also starring Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki, Miles Mander, Douglas Walton, Ron Douglas, Ralf Harolde, Esther Howard
  
• THE BIG SLEEP
  (1946, Warner Brothers)
  Screenplay by William Faulkner, Jules Furthman and Leigh Brackett
  Based on the novel by Raymond Chandler
  Starring Humphrey Bogart as PHILIP MARLOWE
  Also starring Lauren Bacall, John Ridgeley, Martha Vickes, Dorothy Malone, Charles Waldron, Peggy Knudsen, Regis Toomey, Charles D. Browne, Robert Steele, Elisha Cook, Jr.
  
• THE LADY IN THE LAKE
  (1947, MGM)
  Written by Steve Fisher
  Based on the novel by Raymond Chandler
  Directed by Robert Montgomery
  Starring Robert Montgomery as PHILLIP MARLOWE
  Also starring Audrey Trotter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, Leon Ames, Jayne Meadows, Dick Simmons, Morris Ankrum, Lila Leeds, William Roberts, Kethleen Lockhart, Ellay Mort
  
• THE BRASHER DOUBLOON
  (UK title: The High Window)
  (1947, 20th Century Fox)
  
• MARLOWE
  (1969, Metrocolor/MGM)
  96 minutes
  Screenplay by Stirling Silliphant
  Based on The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
  Directed by Paul Bogart
  Cinematography by William H. Daniels
  Produced by Sidney Beckerman,
  Gabriel Katzka
  Starring James Garner as PHILIP MARLOWE
                Gayle Hunnicutt as Mavis Wald
  Also starring Carroll O'Connor, Rita Moreno, Sharon Farrell, William H. Daniels, H.M. Wynant, Jackie Coogan, Kenneth Tobey, Bruce Lee, Christopher Cary, George Tyne, Corinne Comacho, Paul Stevens, Roger Newman, Read Morgan, Warren Finner
  
• THE LONG GOODBYE
  (1973, United Artists)
  Screenplay by Leigh Brackett
  Based on the novel by Raymond Chandler
  Directed by Robert Altman
  Starring Elliot Gould as PHILIP MARLOWE
  Also starring Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden
  
• FAREWELL, MY LOVELY
  (1975, EK Corporation/ITC)
  
• THE BIG SLEEP
  (1978, Winkast)
  99 minutes
  Screenplay by Michael Winner
  Based on the novel by Raymond Chandler
  Directed by Michael Winner
  Produced by Elliot Kastner and Michael Winner
  Starring Robert Mitchum as PHILIP MARLOWE
  Also starring Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, Candy Clark, Joan Collins, Edward Fox, Jimmy Stewart, Oliver Reed

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