{"product_id":"9780375415005","title":"Collected Stories of Raymond Chandler: Introduction by John Bayley","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eChandler, Raymond; Bayley, John\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eEveryman's Library\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e10\/15\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe only complete edition of stories by the undisputed  master of detective literature, collected here for the first time in one volume,  including some stories that have been unavailable for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Raymond Chandler  turned to writing at the age of forty-five, he began by publishing stories in pulp  magazines such as “Black Mask” before later writing his famous novels. These stories  are where Chandler honed his art and developed his uniquely vivid underworld, peopled  with good cops and bad cops, informers and extortionists, lethally predatory blondes  and redheads, and crime, sex, gambling, and alcohol in abundance. In addition to  his classic hard-boiled stories–in which his signature atmosphere of depravity and  violence swirls around the cool, intuitive loners whose type culminated in the famous  detective Philip Marlowe–Chandler also turned his hand to fantasy and even a gothic  romance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis rich treasury of twenty-five stories shows Chandler developing the  terse, laconic, understated style that would serve him so well in his later masterpieces,  and immerses the reader in the richly realized fictional universe that has become  an enduring part of our literary landscape\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42638680359167,"sku":"9780375415005","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780375415005_s600x595.jpg?v=1775589852","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9780375415005","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}