Raymond Chandler bibliography

This Raymond Chandler bibliography is a complete list of novels and short fiction written by Raymond Chandler.

Contents 1 Novels 2 Screenplays 3 Short stories 3.1 Crime short stories 3.2 Non-crime/Fantasy short stories 4 Magazine articles 5 Anthologies 6 Audiobook Releases 6.1 Novels 6.2 Short Stories & Collections 7 References

Novels

• The Big Sleep (1939). Based on the short stories "Killer in the Rain" (1935) and "The Curtain" (1936).^[1]
• Farewell, My Lovely (1940). Based on the short stories "The Man Who Liked Dogs" (1936), "Try The Girl" (1937) and "Mandarin's Jade" (1937).^[1]
• The High Window (1942). Based on the short stories "Bay City Blues" (1938) and "The Lady In The Lake" (1939).^[1]
• The Lady in the Lake (1943). Based on the short stories "Bay City Blues" (1938), "The Lady In The Lake" (1939), "No Crime In The Mountains" (1941).^[1]
• The Little Sister (1949). Scenes based on the short story "Bay City Blues" (1938).^[1]
• The Long Goodbye (1953 UK; Sept 1954 USA; Edgar Award for Best Novel, 1955).
• Playback (1958). Based on an unproduced screenplay.
• Poodle Springs (1959). (incomplete; completed by Robert B. Parker in 1989).

These are the criminal cases of Philip Marlowe, a Los Angeles private investigator. Their plots follow a pattern in which the men and women who hire him reveal themselves to be as corrupt, corrupting, and criminally complicit as those against whom he is hired to protect them.

Screenplays

• The Blue Dahlia
• Double Indemnity
• Strangers on a Train
• Playback (Unproduced)

Short stories

Typically, the short stories chronicle the cases of Philip Marlowe and other down-on-their-luck private detectives (e.g. John Dalmas, Steve Grayce) or good samaritans (e.g. Mr. Carmady). The exceptions are the macabre "The Bronze Door" the fantastical "Professor Bingo's Snuff" and "English Summer," a Gothic romance set in the English countryside. On several occasions, Chandler borrowed (or to use his term, cannibalized) from his pulp fiction for his novels; incidences of this borrowing are noted in the list below.^[2]

Interestingly, in the old radio series The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, which included adaptations of the short stories, the Philip Marlowe name was replaced with the names of other detectives, e.g. Steve Grayce, in "The King in Yellow". In fact, such changes restored the stories to their originally published versions. It was later, when they were republished as Philip Marlowe stories, that the Philip Marlowe name was used, with the exception being "The Pencil."

The first two named stories, featuring a detective named Mallory, are exceptions in a different way, in that these were not turned into Marlowe cases in print.

Crime short stories

• "Blackmailers Don't Shoot" (Black Mask, December 1933; Mallory)
• "Smart-Aleck Kill" (Black Mask, July 1934; originally Mallory, changed to John Dalmas in Simple Art of Murder)
• "Finger Man" (Black Mask, October 1934; unnamed originally, changed to Marlowe in Simple Art of Murder)
• "Killer in the Rain" (Black Mask, January 1935; unnamed, but several characters from the John Dalmas stories appear)
• "Nevada Gas" (Black Mask, June 1935; Johnny DeRuse)
• "Spanish Blood" (Black Mask, November 1935; Sam Delaguerra)
• "Guns at Cyrano's" (Black Mask, January 1936; Ted Malvern originally, changed to Ted Carmady in Simple Art of Murder)
• "The Man Who Liked Dogs" (Black Mask, March 1936; Ted Carmady; cannibalized for Farewell My Lovely)
• "Noon Street Nemesis" (Detective Fiction Weekly, May 1936; Pete Anglich; title changed to "Pick Up on Noon Street" for publication in Simple Art of Murder)
• "Goldfish" (Black Mask, June 1936; Ted Carmady originally, changed to Marlowe in Simple Art of Murder)
• "The Curtain" (Black Mask, September 1936; Ted Carmady; cannibalized for The Big Sleep and the opening of The Long Goodbye)
• "Try the Girl" (Black Mask, January 1937; Ted Carmady; cannibalized for Farewell, My Lovely)
• "Mandarin's Jade" (Dime Detective, 1937; John Dalmas; cannibalized for Farewell, My Lovely)
• "Red Wind" (Dime Detective, January 1938; John Dalmas originally, changed to Marlowe in Simple Art of Murder)
• "The King in Yellow" (Dime Detective, March 1938; Steve Grayce)^[3]
• "Bay City Blues" (Dime Detective, June 1938; John Dalmas, cannibalized for The Lady in the Lake, The High Window, and The Little Sister)
• "The Lady in the Lake" (Dime Detective, January 1939; John Dalmas, cannibalized for The Lady in the Lake and The High Window)
• "Pearls Are a Nuisance" (Dime Detective, April 1939; Walter Gage)
• "Trouble is My Business" (Dime Detective, August 1939; John Dalmas originally, changed to Marlowe in Simple Art of Murder)
• "I'll Be Waiting" (Saturday Evening Post, October 14, 1939; Tony Reseck)
• "No Crime in the Mountains" (Detective Story, September 1941; John Evans, cannibalized for The Lady in the Lake)
• "Marlowe Takes on the Syndicate" (London Daily Mail, April 6-10, 1959; published posthumously; first published in the United States as "The Wrong Pigeon" in Manhunt (February 1960; also appeared as "The Pencil", Argosy, September 1965; and "Philip Marlowe's Last Case", Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 1962)

Non-crime/Fantasy short stories

• "The Bronze Door" (Unknown, November 1939)
• "Professor Bingo's Snuff" (Park East, June, July, & August 1951; also appeared in Go, June, July, & August 1951; no priority established)
• "English Summer" (Antaeus, Autumn1976; published posthumously)

"The Bronze Door" and "Professor Bingo's Snuff" feature unnatural deaths and detectives (Scotland Yard and local California police, respectively), but the emphasis is not on the investigation.

Magazine articles

• "The Simple Art of Murder" (Atlantic Monthly, December 1944)
• "Writers in Hollywood" (Atlantic, November 1945)
• "Critical Notes" (Screen, July 1947)
• "Oscar Night in Hollywood" (Atlantic, March 1948)
• "10 Greatest Crimes of the Century" (Cosmopolitan, October 1948)
• "The Simple Art of Murder" (Saturday Review of Literature, April 15, 1950; this is not a reprint of the 1944 Atlantic article, but rather an assessment of his early pulp stories; this article, somewhat rewritten, served as the introduction to the collection The Simple Art of Murder.
• "Ten Percent of Your Life" (Atlantic, February 1952)
• "The Detective Story as an Art Form" (The Crime Writer, Spring 1959)
• "Farewell, My Hollywood" (Antaeus, Spring/Summer 1976)

Anthologies

• 5 Murderers (Avon Book Co., 1944).
• Five Sinister Characters (Avon Book Co., 1945).
• Red Wind (World Publishing Co., 1946).
• Spanish Blood (World Publishing Co., 1946).
• The Finger Man (Avon Book Co., 1947).
• The Simple Art of Murder (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1950); contains all of Chandler's crime stories that were not cannibalized for his novels except for Blackmailers Don't Shoot.
• Killer in the Rain (Hamish Hamilton (UK), 1964); contains all of Chandler's crime stories that were cannibalized for his novels.
• The Midnight (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1971) ISBN 0-395-12712-2; Introduction by Joan Kahn, contains Raymond Chandler Introduces The Simple Art of Murder, Red Wind, Trouble Is My Business, Blackmailers Don't Shoot, The Pencil, The Little Sister, and The Long Goodbye.
• Stories & Early Novels: Pulp Stories, The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window (Frank MacShane, ed.) (Library of America, 1995) ISBN 978-1-88301107-9.
• Later Novels & Other Writings: The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback, Double Indemnity, Selected Essays & Letters (Frank MacShane, ed.) (Library of America, 1995) ISBN 978-1-88301108-6.
• Collected Stories (Everyman's Library, Knopf, 2002); the first single volume collection of all of Chandler's short stories.

Audiobook Releases

Many of Raymond Chandler's works have been released as audiobooks in a variety of formats, including digital download from Audible.com and other vendors. Unless otherwise noted, all works have been released by Phoenix Books & Audio, and are read by actor Elliot Gould, who portrayed Philip Marlowe in the 1973 film adaptation of The Long Goodbye. While most have only been released as abridged versions, a few are available as complete, unabridged recordings.

Novels

• The Big Sleep (unabridged)
• Farewell, My Lovely (unabridged)
• The High Window (abridged)
• The Lady in the Lake (abridged)
• The Little Sister (abridged)
• The Long Goodbye (abridged)
• Playback (unabridged & abridged versions)
• Poodle Springs (abridged)

Short Stories & Collections

• Red Wind (unabridged)
• Trouble is My Business (unabridged)
• Bay City Blues & No Crime in the Mountains (2 stories) (unabridged)
• Mandarin's Jade and Other Stories (3 stories) (abridged)
• Killer in the Rain and Other Stories (4 stories) (abridged)

In addition, a number of Chandler's works have also been adapted as much-abridged full-cast dramatisations for BBC Radio 4, starring Ed Bishop as Philip Marlowe. See the individual novels' pages for more information.

References