Contents
COPYRIGHT INFO ...... 2
A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER ...... 3 . .
The MEGAPACK™ Ebook Series ...... 6. . .
SMART-ALECK KILL (1934) ...... 16 . .
NEVADA GAS (1935) ...... 59
SPANISH BLOOD (1935) ...... 106
GUNS AT CYRANO’S (1936) ...... 169 . .
NOON STREET NEMESIS (1936) ...... 221. . .
THE KING IN YELLOW (1938) ...... 264 . .
THE BIG SLEEP (1939) ...... 318
PEARLS ARE A NUISANCE (1939) ...... 500 FAREWELL, MY LOVELY (1940)Sample . . . .file ...... 548 THE HIGH WINDOW (1942) ...... 775
THE LADY IN THE LAKE (1943) ...... 988. . .
THE LONG GOODBYE (1953) ...... 1198 . .
PLAYBACK (1958) ...... 1527 . .
THE SIMPLE ART OF MURDER (1944) ...... 1668 . .
Contents | 1 COPYRIGHT INFO
The Raymond Chandler MEGAPACK™ is copyright © 2015 by Wildside Press, LLC . All rights reserved . * * * * The MEGAPACK™ ebook series name is a trademark of Wild- side Press, LLC . All rights reserved . * * * *
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COPYRIGHT INFO | 2 A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER
Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888–1959) was an American novelist and screenwriter . In 1932, at age forty-four, Chandler de- cided to become 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 pub- lished seven novels during his lifetime (an eighth in progress at his death was completed by Robert B . Parker) . All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some several times . In the year before he died, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America . He died on March 26, 1959, in La Jolla, California . Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popu- lar literature, and is considered by many to be a founder, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M . Cain and other Black Mask writers, of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. His protagonist, Philip Marlowe, along with Hammett’sSample Sam fileSpade, is considered by some to be synonymous with “private detective,” both having been played on screen by Humphrey Bogart, whom many considered to be the quintessential Marlowe . Some of Chandler’s novels are considered important literary works, and several are often considered masterpieces, including: Farewell, My Lovely (1940) and The Long Goodbye (1953), both included in this volume . The Long Goodbye is praised within an anthology of American crime stories as “arguably the first book since Hammett’s The Glass Key, published more than twenty years earlier, to qualify as a serious and significant mainstream novel that just happened to possess elements of mystery”. Enjoy!
A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER | 3 —John Betancourt Publisher, Wildside Press LLC www .wildsidepress .com
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