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Penguin Sets: Philip Marlowe Mysteries

Raymond Chandler 8-book Philip Marlowe set, plus exclusive poster

Philip Marlowe is the quintessential hard-boiled private investigator. Gumshoeing the mean streets of Los Angeles in the Thirties, Forties and Fifties, Marlowe is on the trail of mobsters, hoods, femme fatales, killers, liars, drunks, crooked police and anyone else looking for a short cut to the American Dream.

The seven novels and four short stories collected in these eight books reveal a dark, wicked world where the gun trumps honesty every time.

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The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep

The first case for Philip Marlowe sees him hired by a blackmailed millionaire.

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Farewell My Lovely

Farewell My Lovely

Marlowe agrees to help an ex-con get his girl back and winds up in heaps of trouble ...

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The High Window

The High Window

Marlowe is hired to find a rare and expensive coin that's gone missing. Only no one told him about the corpses along the trail.

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The Lady in the Lake

The Lady in the Lake

Marlowe is asked to help find a man’s wife who has gone missing in suspicious circumstances.

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The Little Sister

The Little Sister

A Hollywood starlet, gangsters, suspicious cops and corpses with ice picks jammed in their necks make for one of Marlowe’s toughest cases.

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The Long Goodbye

The Long Goodbye

When Marlowe helps out a drunken friend whose wife has died suspiciously he causes himself no end of trouble.

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Playback

Playback

Marlowe’s being paid to follow a mysterious and lovely red head. Easy job. Until he trips over the first corpse.

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Trouble is My Business

Trouble is My Business

Four cases see Marlowe get more – much more – than he bargained for.

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