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The High Window
Автор: Raymond Chandler Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20132014-09-24
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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. That's also unlucky for a private investigator, because leaving a trail of corpses around LA gets cops' noses out of joint. If Marlowe doesn't wrap this one up fast, he's going to end up in jail — or worse, in a box in the ground...
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The Little Sister
Автор: Raymond Chandler Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20122013-09-14
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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. You see, Orrin's trail leads Marlowe to luscious movie starlets, uppity gangsters, suspicious cops and corpses with ice picks jammed in their necks. When trouble comes calling, sometimes it's best to pretend to be out...
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The Lady in the Lake
Автор: Raymond Chandler Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20172014-07-14
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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. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he's denying nothing — on account of the two bullet holes in his heart. Now Marlowe's on the trail of a killer, who leads him out of smoggy LA all the way to a murky mountain lake...
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Oxford Bookworms Library 4: The Big Sleep
Автор: Raymond Chandler Жанр: Oxford University Press Издательство: Oxford University Press Год: 2007 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20112012-08-23
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The Oxford Bookworms Library provides superb reading and student / teacher support for the classroom, and is also highly recommended for schools running Extensive Reading Programmes, offering the right range of books that encourage students to read for pleasure. General Sternwood has four million dollars, and two young daughters, both pretty and both wild. He's an old, sick man, close to death, but he doesn't like being blackmailed. So he asks private detective Philip Marlowe to get the blackmailer off his back. Marlowe knows the dark side of life in Los Angeles well, and nothing much surprises him. But the Sternwood girls are a lot wilder than their old father realizes. They like men, drink, drugs — and it's not just a question of blackmail.
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Penguin Readers 2: The Lady in the Lake
Автор: Raymond Chandler Жанр: Pearson Издательство: Pearson Год: 2008 Страниц: 56 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20132011-04-15
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Detective Philip Marlowe is looking for Derace Kingsley's wife, Crystal. Is she dead or not? Marlowe finds more than one dead body and learns about women, drugs, men in love, and a police cover-up. Who killed The Lady in the Lake and why?
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Playback
Автор: Raymond Chandler Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20092009-04-17
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Marlowe is being paid to follow a sad-looking red-head named Eleanor King. Or is she called Betty Mayfield or Mrs Kinsolving? And what is the man with the swift left hook holding over her? Even in a nice little town like Esmerelda there's no shortage of PIs, cops and bellhops to make a case more difficult, and Marlowe's overdeveloped sense of justice is getting him into trouble again. Still, at least there's a blonde with a snooty look and a great pair of legs to take the sting out of things ... Throughout the 1940s and 1950s Philip Marlowe stalked the tawdry neon wilderness of Southern California. There Raymond Chandler's creation became the most famous fictional detective since Sherlock Holmes; often imitated, never bettered. Read the complete Marlowe novels in Penguin paperback.
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The Lady in the Lake (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Raymond Chandler Жанр: Pearson Издательство: Pearson Год: 2008 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20102009-12-07
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Detective Philip Marlowe is looking for Derace Kingsley’s wife, Crystal. Is she dead or not? Marlowe finds more than one dead body and learns about women, drugs, men in love, and a police cover-up. Who killed The Lady in the Lake and why?
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Trouble is My Business (intro: Karin Slaughter)
Автор: Raymond Chandler Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 1989 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20091993-03-19
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In the first of the four cases in «Trouble is My Business», 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 … The four novellas collected here are quintessential Raymond Chandler: slick, crystal-clear writing that pins the reader to the seat and won’t let go until the last page is turned.
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Goldfish
Автор: Raymond Chandler Жанр: Oxford University Press Издательство: Oxford University Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 80 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20102013-08-17
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The Leander pearls were stolen nineteen years ago. The thief was caught, but the pearls were never found, and there is still a $25,000 reward for anyone who finds them. Then somebody comes to private detective Carmady with a story about a guy who knows where the pearls are hidden. Carmady agrees to talk to the guy who says he knows. But he finds him dead in his bed, with burned feet, and it seems there are quite a lot of people in Los Angeles who have heard the story, and who are out looking for the Leander pearls...
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