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Philip Marlowe Books in Order
Raymond Chandler’s seven completed Philip Marlowe novels in publication order.
7 books on this shelf, newest first.
Philip Marlowe is the defining private eye of literary noir: principled, observant, sardonic, and stubbornly independent in a corrupt Los Angeles. This collection contains the seven Marlowe novels Raymond Chandler completed.
Where to start: Read in publication order, from The Big Sleep through Playback. The cases stand alone, but the sequence shows Chandler refining Marlowe’s voice and moving from hard-boiled puzzle plots toward the melancholy depth of The Long Goodbye.
