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paperback. It was in the pulp detective magazines of the 1930s that the author's definitive take on the hard-boiled detective story first appeared. This title includes stories that range from the well-thumbed pages of 'Black Mask' and 'Dime Detective Magazine', including 'The Man Who Liked Dogs', 'The Lady in the Lake' and 'Bay City Blues'. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 38. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241956311
- ISBN
- 9780241956311
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.95
€ 12.99
€ 10.95
paperback. LA PI Philip Marlowe is offered a job that leaves a bad taste in the mouth: smearing a girl who's 'got her hooks into a rich man's pup'. Before too long Marlowe's up to his neck in corpses and cops and he's taken pity on the girl. There's nothing like making trouble of your business.. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241956304
- ISBN
- 9780241956304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.27
€ 12.99
€ 10.27
paperback. Her name is Orfamay Quest and she's come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or leastways that's what she tells PI Philip Marlowe, offering him a measly twenty bucks for the privilege. But Marlowe's feeling charitable - though it's not long before he wishes he wasn't so sweet. Series: Phillip Marlowe. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241954324
- ISBN
- 9780241954324
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.27
€ 12.99
€ 10.27
Paperback. Stalking the tawdry neon wilderness of forties and fifties Los Angeles, Raymond Chandler's hard-drinking, wise-cracking Phillip Marlowe is one of the world's most famous fictional detectives. Playback finds Marlowe mixing business with pleasure - getting paid to follow a mysterious and lovely red-head named Eleanor King. Series: Phillip Marlowe. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241956250
- ISBN
- 9780241956250
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.33
€ 13.99
€ 10.33
Paperback. Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is indulging in some petty blackmail. A weary, old man, Sternwood just wants the problem to go away. But Marlowe finds he has his work cut out just keeping Sternwood's wild, devil-may-care daughters out of trouble as they prowl LA's dirtiest and darkest streets. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 110 x 16. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241970775
- ISBN
- 9780241970775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.44
€ 10.99
€ 9.44
Paperback. Contains the author's three Philip Marlowe novels, "The Lady in the Lake", "The High Window" and "The Little Sister". Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141186085
- ISBN
- 9780141186085
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.73
€ 18.99
€ 13.73
Paperback. Often imitated but never bettered, it is in Marlowe's long shadow that every fictional detective must stand - and under the influence of Raymond Chandler's addictive prose that every crime author must write. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colourful underworld figures. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141182612
- ISBN
- 9780141182612
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.53
€ 16.99
€ 12.53
Paperback. Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. Series: Phillip Marlowe. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241956328
- ISBN
- 9780241956328
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 5.60
€ 10.99
€ 5.60
paperback. Eight years ago Moose Malloy and cute little redhead Velma were getting married - until someone framed Malloy for armed robbery. Now his stretch is up and he wants Velma back. PI Philip Marlow meets Malloy one hot day in Hollywood and, out of the generosity of his jaded heart, agrees to help him. Series: Phillip Marlowe. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241954355
- ISBN
- 9780241954355
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.64
€ 9.64
CD-Audio. Features Philip Marlowe the archetypal noir detective: wisecracking and world-weary, hardboiled yet honourable. This volume includes all eight dramatisations of Raymond Chandler's crime novels featuring his iconic hero, that brings the beautiful, corrupt world of California in the '40s and '50s to life. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 139 x 35. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House
- Format
- CD
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Unabridged
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785292903
- ISBN
- 9781785292903
CD
Condition: New
€ 60.90€ 43.93
€ 60.90
€ 43.93
Hardcover. Creator of the famous Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler elevated the American hard-boiled detective genre to an art form. His last four novels, published here in one volume, offer ample opportunity to savour the unique and compelling fictional world that made his works modern classics. This book deals with his life and work. Num Pages: 1008 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 46. Weight in Grams: 872.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857152562
- ISBN
- 9781857152562
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.06
€ 26.99
€ 19.06
Paperback. PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 195 x 19. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241956281
- ISBN
- 9780241956281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Hardcover. Raymond Chandler turned to writing at the age of forty-five, he began by publishing in pulp magazines such as Black Mask before later writing his famous novels. In these stories Chandler honed his art and developed his uniquely vivid underworld, peopled with good cops and bad cops. This book focuses on his life and work. Num Pages: 1336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 139 x 61. Weight in Grams: 1138.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857152579
- ISBN
- 9781857152579
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 23.06
€ 33.99
€ 23.06
Hardcover. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 182 x 26. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- PENGUIN UK
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241978931
- ISBN
- 9780241978931
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. Editor(s): Carver, Raymond; Jenks, Tom. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 108 x 29. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Publication date
- 1989
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780440204237
- ISBN
- 9780440204237
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.66
€ 11.66
Paperback. Shows how humour and tragedy dwell in the hearts of ordinary people. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099530343
- ISBN
- 9780099530343
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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€ 10.45
Paperback. A collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 110.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099530329
- ISBN
- 9780099530329
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. Presents a story in which a blind man guides the hand of a sighted man as together they draw the cathedral the blind man can never see. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 15. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099530336
- ISBN
- 9780099530336
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
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paperback. A collection of stories. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099540328
- ISBN
- 9780099540328
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
€ 13.99
€ 11.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 34. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860460395
- ISBN
- 9781860460395
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.77
€ 23.99
€ 17.77
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Harvill Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860460401
- ISBN
- 9781860460401
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
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paperback. Covers seven stories including "Errand", in which the author imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer whom the author hugely admired and to whose work his own was often compared. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 98.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099530350
- ISBN
- 9780099530350
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
paperback. Philip Marlowe's on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. That's the simple part. It becomes more complicated when Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241956298
- ISBN
- 9780241956298
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Hardcover. Jim Bloggs' walls are lined with books like "Out in the Silver West", the "Boys' Book of Pirates" and "Executive Opportunities", which provide fodder for his ruminations on career change. He sets out to bring these dreams to fruition only to discover that the life of an executive, artist or a cowboy is more complicated and costly than it appears. Num Pages: 32 pages, chiefly ill. BIC Classification: FX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 179 x 9. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Number of pages
- 32
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780224085243
- ISBN
- 9780224085243
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61