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Archer, Lew (Fictitious character) Archer, Lew (Fictitious character) Fiction California, Southern Detective and mystery stories, American Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction Marlowe, Philip (Fictitious character) Fiction Private investigators Private investigators California Los Angeles Fiction Private investigators California, Southern Fiction Private investigators United States FictionContents: The postman always rings twice / James M. Cain -- They shoot horses, don't they / Horace McCoy -- Thieves like us / Edward Anderson -- The big clock / Kenneth Fearing -- Nightmare alley / William Lindsay Gresham -- I married a dead man / Cornell Woolrich.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC CRIChandler, Raymond
Summary: Later Novels and Other Writings begins with The Lady in the Lake (1943). Written during the war, the story takes Marlowe out of the seamy L.A. streets to the deceptive tranquility of the surrounding mountains, as the search for a businessman's missing wife expands into an elegy of loneliness and loss. The darker tone typical of Chandler's later fiction is evident in The Little Sister (1949), in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC CHANDHammett, Dashiell
Summary: In the stories and novellas he wrote for Black Mask and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Dashiell Hammett took the detective story and turned it into a medium for capturing the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern American life. In this volume, The Library of America collects the finest of these stories: 24 in all, along with some revealing essays and an earlier version...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2001
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Summary: Pulp stories; The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; and The High Window.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAHammett, Dashiell
Summary: Presents five novels by Dashiell Hamilton, all published between 1929 and 1934.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMChandler, Raymond
Summary: Pulp stories; The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; and The High Window.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC CHANDMacdonald, Ross
Summary: "The three novels collected in this second volume in the Library of America Ross Macdonald edition represent for many readers the summit of American crime writing. They remain thrilling for their searing psychological truth-telling, daring flights of narrative invention, and their keenly observed picture of the manners and morals of a particular time and place (Southern California in the early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMacdonald, Ross
Summary: From his vantage point in Southern California—and through the eyes of his great creation, private eye Lew Archer—Ross Macdonald (the pseudonymn of Kenneth Millar) fashions a haunting, startlingly immediate vision of modern America: a swirling mix of sexual exploitation, intergenerational conflict, racial animosities, and ecological disaster. In Black Money, Archer is hired to find a wealthy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2017