Mystery Detective Novels of R Chandler

This app contains the novels written by American novelist and screen-writer Raymond Chandler.

* The Big Sleep (1939) : adapted for 2 films of same name, a 1946 film starring Humphrey Bogart and a 1978 film starring Robert Mitchum.

* Farewell, My Lovely (1940) : the basis for three movie versions , 'The Falcon Takes Over'(1942), 'Murder My Sweet' (1944) and 'Farewell, My Lovely' (1975)

* The Little Sister (1949) : adapted for the 1969 film 'Marlowe'

* The Long Goodbye (1953) : the novel received the Edgar Award for Best Novel. It was later adapted as a 1973 film of the same name 'The Long Goodbye'

From wikipedia:

Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 1888 – 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime. All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once. In the year before his death, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America.

Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature. He is considered to be a founder of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. The protagonist of his novels, Philip Marlowe, like Hammett's Sam Spade, is considered by some to be synonymous with "private detective". Both were played in films by Humphrey Bogart.

At least three of Chandler's novels have been regarded as masterpieces: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Little Sister (1949), and The Long Goodbye (1953). Chandler's reputation has grown in recent years.[wikipedia]