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Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction.

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Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude -- Erle Stanley Gardner
[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision -- Joyce Carol Oates * New York Review of Books *
Raymond Chandler is a master * New York Times *
Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence * Daily Telegraph *
Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . A great artist * The Boston Book Review *

Killer in the Rain

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    A Paperback / softback by Raymond Chandler, Peter Robinson

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 27/10/2011
      ISBN13: 9780241956311, 978-0241956311
      ISBN10: 0241956315

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction.

      Trade Review
      Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude -- Erle Stanley Gardner
      [T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision -- Joyce Carol Oates * New York Review of Books *
      Raymond Chandler is a master * New York Times *
      Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence * Daily Telegraph *
      Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . A great artist * The Boston Book Review *

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