Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out - and that's before he stumbles over the first corpse .

Big sleep, the

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...

High window, the

«Betty était assise à côté de moi sur la banquette. Elle regardait droit devant elle, sans dire un mot. Elle ne voyait pas le brouillard, ni l'arrière du camion que nous étions sur le point de dépasser. Elle ne voyait rien. Elle était là, comme quelqu'un qu'on est en train d'emmener à la mort. Ou alors elle était la meilleure petite simulatrice qu'il m'ait jamais été donné de rencontrer.»

Charades pour écroulés

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 . . .

The lady in the lake

Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesFor wise-cracking Private Eye Philip Marlowe, murder is all in a day's work... There are no streets meaner than those of L. A.'s underworld - but luckily one detective has more than his fair share of street smarts. Here, in the first two novels featuring the immortal creation Philip Marlowe, we see the cynical sleuth taking on a nasty case of blackmail involving a Californian millionaire and his two devil-may-care daughters; then dealing with a missing nightclub crooner (plus several gangsters with a habit of shooting first and talking later).

The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely

Un ancien détenu au gabarit impressionnant, un détective en marge du système, un directeur de radio sournois et une épouse ravagée par la jalousie se lancent dans un chassé-croisé mortel à la recherche d'une femme aussi incandescente qu'insaisissable. Une nouvelle haletante dans laquelle Raymond Chandler réunit tous les ingrédients du roman noir. 
"Le grand balaise ne me concernait en rien, ni alors, ni avant, ni plus tard, et surtout pas à cet instant."

Déniche la fille

In the four long stories in this collection, Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold digger, runs afoul of crooked politicos, gets a line on some stolen jewels with a reward attached, and stumbles across a murder victim who may have been an extortionist.

Les ennuis, c'est mon problème: Intégrale des nouvelles

'So you need help. What's your name and trouble?'   Private Investigator Philip Marlowe's latest client is Orfamay Quest. She's come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or at least that's what she tells Marlowe, offering him just twenty dollars for his trouble. Feeling charitable, Marlowe accepts - though it's not long before he wishes he hadn't. Soon the trail leads to a succession of Hollywood starlets, uppity gangsters, suspicious cops and corpses with ice picks jammed into their necks . . .   The Little Sister  is Raymond Chandler's fifth novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.  'Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye'  Los Angeles Times  'Chandler grips the mind from the first sentence'   Daily Telegraph    'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain'   Sunday Times   'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes'  Anthony Burgess   Discover the newest addition to the inimitable Philip Marlowe series -  Only to Sleep  by Lawrence Osborne - out 6 September 2018 in hardback and ebook from Hogarth.

Little sister, the

A la recherche d'une jeune fille disparue, le détective privé Carmady n'a qu'un seul indice : elle était accompagnée de son chien, Voss...Et qui sait jusqu'où peut conduire l'amour de la race canine ! ? Une enquête rythmée et surprenante par l'un des maîtres du roman noir américain.

Big sleep, the

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