Audiobooks by Raymond Chandler

A Rare Recording of Ian Fleming and Raymond Chandler

"Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 to August 12, 1964) was an English writer, best known for his James Bond series of spy novels, and his only children's novel, Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament (MP) from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. Fleming himself was heavily involved in British intelligence during World War II. Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 to March 26, 1959) was an American novelist and screenwriter. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. All but one of his eight novels have been made into motion pictures. Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature, including pioneering the hardboiled school of detective fiction. The protagonist of his novels, Philip Marlowe, is considered by some to be synonymous with "private detective." The following recording is from the late 1950s."

Ian Fleming, Raymond Chandler (Author), Ian Fleming, Raymond Chandler (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - La ventana alta (Philip Marlowe 3)

"Philip Marlowe deberá resolver una serie de asesinatos relacionados con la desaparición de una valiosa moneda. En La ventana alta (1942), la tercera novela de Raymond Chandler, Marlowe demuestra que no existen los casos sencillos y que detrás de una investigación rutinaria suelen esconderse las pasiones humanas más siniestras. Elizabeth Bright Murdock, una adinerada y áspera viuda, contrata a Marlowe para que encuentre su doblón Brasher, una moneda rara y muy valiosa que ha sido robada. Marlowe deberá resolver un rompecabezas cuyas piezas no parecen tener relación, mientras se suceden los asesinatos relacionados con un asesinato que fue silenciado durante muchos años. Reseña: «Marlowe es un sir Galahad con ropajes del siglo XX... un hombre capaz de enfrentarse a los peores elementos de un mundo despiadado. Llamémosle religión (o idealismo), pero con unos buenos puños e incluso una pistola como defensa.» Patricia Highsmith"

Raymond Chandler (Author), Raúl Arrieta (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Adiós, muñeca (Philip Marlowe 2)

"Adiós, muñeca (1940), considerada por muchos la mejor obra de Raymond Chandler, es su segunda novela. El detective Philip Marlowe emprende la búsqueda apasionada de una cantante pelirroja, se ve envuelto en la escena de un crimen y debe desenredar un turbio asunto de deudas de juego. No tardará en descubrir que la costumbre de quienes lo rodean es disparar primero y preguntar después. Reseña: «He leído con suma satisfacción Adiós, muñeca ... Es poco habitual encontrar a alguien con el don de contar historias, pero Raymond Chandler lo posee.» Edmund Wilson"

Raymond Chandler (Author), Raúl Arrieta (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - El sueño eterno (Philip Marlowe 1)

"¿Serías capaz de resolver un misterioso caso de amenaza de muerte entre la alta sociedad de Hollywood?. Acompaña al detective Philip Marlowe, el detective más célebre del siglo XX, en este complejo caso. El detective Philip Marlowe se enfrenta a un caso que promete ser sencillo: el viejo general Sternwood, paralítico y extremadamente rico, ha recibido una nota de chantaje que concierne a su hija menor, la salvaje Carmen. Recorriendo la ciudad desde su despacho en Hollywood Boulevard hasta las mansiones de los barrios residenciales, Marlowe deberá adentrarse en un laberinto de perversidad cada vez más oscuro. Esta edición reúne también los dos relatos pulp, publicados en la revista Black Mask, que Chandler canibalizó para escribir la novela: Asesino bajo la lluvia (1935) y El telón (1936). Reseña: «Raymond Chandler inventó una nueva forma de hablar sobre Estados Unidos y desde entonces ha logrado transformar nuestra mirada.» Paul Auster"

Raymond Chandler (Author), Raúl Arrieta (Narrator)

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The Long Good-bye

"Brought to you by Penguin. 'A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness. It all depends on where you sit and what your own private score is. I didn't have one. I didn't care' Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: private investigator Philip Marlowe. He is willing to help a man down on his luck, but later Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe is drawn into a sordid crowd of adulterers and alcoholics in LA's Idle Valley, where the rich are suffering one big suntanned hangover. Marlowe is sure Lennox didn't kill his wife, but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth? The Long Good-Bye is Raymond Chandler's sixth novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe. 'Chandler gave birth to a different kind of detective' The 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 © Raymond Chandler 1988 (P) Penguin Audio 2020"

Raymond Chandler (Author), Scott Brick (Narrator)

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Playback

"Brought to you by Penguin. 'I know it sounds corny, but I could drill you and get away with it.' 'Okay,' I said thickly. 'For fifty bucks a day I don't get shot. That costs seventy-five.' Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is mixing business with pleasure - he's getting paid to follow a lovely mysterious redhead called Eleanor King. And wherever Miss King goes, trouble is sure to follow. But she's easy on the eye and Marlowe's happy to do as he's told. But one dead body later and what started out as a lazy afternoon's snooping soon becomes a deadly cocktail of blackmail, lies, mistaken identity - and murder . . . Playback is Raymond Chandler's last full-length novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe. 'Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since' Paul Auster '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 © Raymond Chandler 1988 (P) Penguin Audio 2020"

Raymond Chandler (Author), Scott Brick (Narrator)

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The Little Sister

"Brought to you by Penguin. '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 © Raymond Chandler 1989 (P) Penguin Audio 2020"

Raymond Chandler (Author), Scott Brick (Narrator)

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[Italian] - Addio, mia amata

"Grazie alle sue armi di difesa personale – la tesa abbassata sugli occhi per principio, il sopracciglio inarcato per la stessa ragione, un fisico rispettabile nonostante gli stravizi –, Philip Marlowe potrebbe arrivare a fine mese guadagnando quanto basta, senza passare da un guaio all'altro. Specie quando si muove, come qui, nel suo ambiente naturale, la Los Angeles dei locali notturni. Ma purtroppo, anche se a vederlo non si direbbe, è curioso. E se davanti a un locale, mentre indaga su tutt'altro, nota un figuro in cappotto sportivo, palline da golf per bottoni e un abbacinante paio di scarpe di coccodrillo, vuole saperne di più: quindi lo segue all'interno, finendo a contatto ravvicinato col temibile Moose Malloy, e si mette poi sulle tracce della sua molto rimpianta vecchia fiamma, l'ancor più temibile Velma Valento."

Raymond Chandler (Author), Stefano Braschi (Narrator)

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The Lady in the Lake

"Brought to you by Penguin. 'Everything was quiet and sunny and calm. No cause for excitement whatever. It's only Marlowe, finding another body. He does it rather well by now. Murder-a-day Marlowe, they call him . . .' Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired to find a missing woman. Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a divorce and marry a hunk named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband says. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything. 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 Los Angeles all the way to a murky mountain lake . . . The Lady in the Lake is Raymond Chandler's fourth novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe. 'Chandler's best novels carry the crime story to levels of artistry that have rarely been matched' Daily Mail '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. © Raymond Chandler 1989 (P) Penguin Audio 2021"

Raymond Chandler (Author), Scott Brick (Narrator)

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The High Window

"Brought to you by Penguin. 'He lay crumpled on his back. Very lonely, very dead. The safe door was wide open. A metal drawer was pulled out. It was empty now. There may have been money in it once.' Los Angeles PI 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 puts cops' noses seriously out of joint. If Marlowe doesn't wrap this one up fast, he's going to end up either in jail or in a wooden box in the ground . . . The High Window is Raymond Chandler's third novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe. 'Chandler's books should be read and judged, not as escapist literature, but as works of art' W.H. Auden '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 © Raymond Chandler 1989 (P) Penguin Audio 2020"

Raymond Chandler (Author), Scott Brick (Narrator)

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Farewell, My Lovely

"Brought to you by Penguin. Eight years ago Moose Malloy and cute little redhead Velma were getting married - until someone framed Malloy for armed robbery. Now his stretch is up and he wants Velma back. PI Philip Marlow meets Malloy one hot day in Hollywood and, out of the generosity of his jaded heart, agrees to help him. Dragged from one smoky bar to another, Marlowe's search for Velma turns up plenty of dangerous gangsters with a nasty habit of shooting first and talking later. And soon what started as a search for a missing person becomes a matter of life and death . . . © Raymond Chandler 1988 (P) Penguin Audio 2020"

Raymond Chandler (Author), Scott Brick (Narrator)

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The Big Sleep

"Brought to you by Penguin. 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 ... © Raymond Chandler 1988 (P) Penguin Audio 2020"

Raymond Chandler (Author), Scott Brick (Narrator)

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