Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe

by Byron Preiss (Editor)

Other authorsRobert Crais (Author), Sara Paretsky (Author), Max Allan Collins (Author), John Lutz (Author), Raymond Chandler (Author), Ed Gorman (Author), Eric Van Lustbader (Author), Robert J. Randisi (Author), Frank MacShane (Author), Byron Preiss (Author), Simon Brett (Author)15 more, James Grady (Author), Robert Campbell (Author), Stuart M. Kaminsky (Author), Julie Smith (Author), Jeremiah Healy (Author), Dick Lochte (Author), Loren D. Estleman (Author), Jonathan Valin (Author), Benjamin M. Schutz (Author), Edward D. Hoch (Author), Paco Ignacio Taibo II (Author), Roger L. Simon (Author), W. R. Philbrick (Author), Francis M. Nevins Jr. (Author), Joyce Harrington (Author)
Paperback, 1990

Status

Available

Call number

813.087208

Library's review

Indeholder "Byron Preiss: Foreword", "Frank MacShane: Introduction", "Max Allan Collins: The Perfect Crime", "Benjamin M. Schutz: The Black-Eyed Blonde", "Loren D. Estleman: Gun Music", "Joyce Harrington: Saving Grace", "Jonathan Valin: Malibu Tag Team", "Dick Lochte: Sad-Eyed Blonde", "W. R.
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Philbrick: The Empty Sleeve", "Sara Paretsky: Dealer's Choice", "Julie Smith: Red Rock", "Paco Ignacio Taibo II: The Deepest South", "Francis M. Nevins, Jr.: Consultation in the Dark", "Roger L. Simon: In the Jungle of Cities", "John Lutz: Star Bright", "Simon Brett: Stardust Kill", "Robert J. Randisi: Locker 246", "Stuart M. Kaminsky: Bitter Lemons", "Robert Crais: The Man Who Knew Dick Bong", "Edward D. Hoch: Essence D'Orient", "Jeremiah Healy: In the Line of Duty", "Ed Gorman: The Alibi", "James Grady: The Devil's Playground", "Eric Van Lustbader: Asia", "Robert Campbell: Mice", "Raymond Chandler: The Pencil", "About the Authors and Artists".

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Publication

Futura, 1990.

Description

Fiction. Mystery. Short Stories. HTML: Authorized by the estate of the late Raymond Chandler, this volume reveals the missing life history and detective adventures of Philip Marlowe, one of the 20th century's most enduring and beloved characters. Marlowe is the quintessential American detective: cynical yet idealistic; romantic yet full of despair; a gentleman capable of rough violence. The stories are written by some of the detective-mystery genre's leading lights, including: Max Allan Collins, Sara Paretsky, Roger L. Simon, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Robert Crais, Edward Hoch, Ed Gorman, Eric Van Lustbader, Loren Estleman, Simon Brett, and Joyce Harrington. The final story in the volume is Raymond Chandler's last Marlowe adventure: The Pencil. The stories run chronologically through the career of Marlowe, from 1935 through 1960. These are classic Marlowe tales of betrayal, mistrust, and double-dealing on the seamy side of Los Angeles..… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member rab1953
This is an enjoyable collection of short stories involving Philip Marlowe. All the stories are quite readable and build on the atmosphere and character that Raymond Chandler created. One is by Chandler himself, previously unpublished. (I half suspect that this is a publisher’s project to create a
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new book on the basis of the rights to one story. But never mind that.) The stories suffer a little from the compressed format and the need to introduce and wrap up a crime in 15 to 20 pages, although I believe that was Chandler’s format in many cases.
I like the chance to see so many contemporary writers interpreting Marlowe’s character in their own way. Some are a bit heavy-handed with the famous hard-boiled writing style, but some (such as Simon Brett) are quite clever and witty. A few downplay it entirely to focus on Marlowe’s character and situation. What they all do effectively is work with Marlowe’s character, placing him in different settings and times to see how he would resolve a problem. These Marlowes, like Chandler’s Marlowe, often make intuitive jumps without much real detective work, but that’s because they are not so much about working out a mystery, as working out a situation with toughness and honour.
Also quite interesting are the comments in the author’s notes after their contribution. They describe how they see Chandler’s influence (or lack of influence) on them as writers of detective stories and what they think Chandler achieved. The diversity of their impressions builds a portrait of Chandler’s influence on writing that is quite revealing and diverse, from Sara Paretsky whose reaction was to try to find a more rounded role for a woman character to Paco Ignacio Taibo who adopted a gritty neorealism as an appropriate alternative to Latin magic realism.
The overwhelming sense, of course, is one of futility in conflict with a deep personal honour. Coming out of the Depression, the world war and the Cold War, it’s easy to see how American (and other) readers would recognize the sense of darkness and futility. But against that is the belief in the individual standing up to whatever comes, even at the risk of great personal cost. As one writer, Robert Campbell, suggests, it’s the American frontier cowboy reset in the gritty urban scene.
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LibraryThing member wmorton38
A short story collection of Philip Marlowe pastiches. As you might expect, they are of uneven quality and even the one story by Raymond Chandler isn’t one of his best. The stories are arranged by the years in which they are supposed to occur from the 30s to the 50s. One of the better stories is,
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in fact, the first one from 1935, “The Perfect Crime,” by Max Allan Collins based on the death of actress Thelma Todd. It is easy to parody the Chandler stories and more than a few of them come off as over-ripe but it is an interesting collection and worth reading.
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LibraryThing member unclebob53703
The problem with Chandler is that he started late and didn't leave us many books. This is a nicely put together collection of stories featuring Marlowe. Some of them are very clever, and in one the detective actually meets the writer.

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1988-10-27

Physical description

xviii, 478 p.; 17.9 cm

ISBN

0708847773 / 9780708847770

Local notes

Omslag: Ikke angivet
Omslaget viser en lidt hårdkogt mandsperson
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi

Pages

xviii; 478

Library's rating

Rating

½ (28 ratings; 3.6)

DDC/MDS

813.087208
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