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The Simple Art of Murder


A Mystery Novel


Companion Book to the Philip Marlowe Series

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The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe.

Featuring the iconic character that inspired the forthcoming film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.

In The Simple Art of Murder, which was prefaced by the famous Atlantic Monthly essay of the same name, noir master Raymond Chandler argues the virtues of the hard-boiled detective novel, and this collection, mostly drawn from stories he wrote for the pulps, demonstrates Chandler's imaginative, entertaining facility with the form.

Included are the classic stories "Spanish Blood," "Pearls Are a Nuisance," and "Guns at Cyrano's," among others.

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