Books Update: It’s a Raymond Chandler Evening…
*Crime, Spies & Sleaze: …or so says Robyn Hitchcock in the song of the same name (look it up!). But you can enjoy Chandler any time of day with our impressive new selection of his vintage paperbacks, a mix of novels and short stories. Star of the show is Chandler’s most famous privtae eye, Phillip Marlowe, in arguably his greatest novel ‘Farewell, My Lovely’; that most famous of hard-boiled detectives also features in ‘The Lady In The Lake’, and several earlier protagonists star in ‘Pearls Are A Nuisance’, ‘Killer In The Rain’, ‘Smart Alec Kill’ and ‘Trouble Is My Business’. These are all Penguin 1970s editions and most feature recoloured movie covers, many with Humphrey Bogart, the definitive on screen Marlowe. We also have one earlier Ace anthology, a UK 1st PB, of ‘Pick-Up On Noon Street’. Great reads all.