Raymond Chandler bibliography

This Raymond Chandler bibliography is a complete list of novels and short fiction written by Raymond Chandler.

Novels

• The Big Sleep (1939). Based on the short stories "Killer in the Rain" (1935) and "The Curtain" (1936).
• Farewell, My Lovely (1940). Based on the short stories "The Man Who Liked Dogs" (1936), "Try The Girl" (1937) and "Mandarin's Jade" (1937).
• The High Window (1942). Based on the short stories "Bay City Blues" (1938) and "The Lady In The Lake" (1939).
• The Lady in the Lake (1943). Based on the short stories "Bay City Blues" (1938), "The Lady In The Lake" (1939), "No Crime In The Mountains" (1941).
• The Little Sister (1949). Scenes based on the short story "Bay City Blues" (1938).
• The Long Goodbye (1953 UK; Sept 1954 USA; Edgar Award for Best Novel, 1955). Scenes based on the short story "The Curtain" (1936).
• Playback (1958). Based on an unproduced screenplay.
• Poodle Springs (1959). (incomplete; completed by Robert B. Parker in 1989).

A number of Chandler's works were adapted as full-cast dramatisations for BBC Radio 4, starring Ed Bishop as Philip Marlowe. See the individual novels' pages for more information.

Screenplays

• The Blue Dahlia
• Double Indemnity
• Strangers on a Train
• Playback (Unproduced)

Short stories

Typically, the short stories chronicle the cases of Philip Marlowe and other down-on-their-luck private detectives (e.g. John Dalmas, Steve Grayce) or Good Samaritans (e.g. Mr. Carmady). The exceptions are the macabre "The Bronze Door", the fantastical "Professor Bingo's Snuff", and "English Summer," a Gothic romance set in the English countryside. On several occasions, Chandler borrowed (or to use his term, cannibalized) from his pulp fiction for his novels; incidences of this borrowing are noted in the list below.

In the radio series The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, which included adaptations of the short stories, the Philip Marlowe name was replaced with the names of other detectives, e.g. Steve Grayce, in "The King in Yellow". In fact, such changes restored the stories to their originally published versions. It was later, when they were republished as Philip Marlowe stories, that the Philip Marlowe name was used, with the exception being "The Pencil."

The first two named stories, featuring a detective named Mallory, are exceptions in a different way, in that these were not turned into Marlowe cases in print.

Crime short stories

• "Blackmailers Don't Shoot" (Black Mask, December 1933; Mallory)
• "Smart-Aleck Kill" (Black Mask, July 1934; originally Mallory, changed to John Dalmas in Simple Art of Murder)
• "Finger Man" (Black Mask, October 1934; unnamed originally, but several characters from the Ted Carmady stories appear; changed to Marlowe in Simple Art of Murder)
• "Killer in the Rain" (Black Mask, January 1935; unnamed, but several characters from the John Dalmas stories appear; cannibalized for The Big Sleep )
• "Nevada Gas" (Black Mask, June 1935; Johnny DeRuse)
• "Spanish Blood" (Black Mask, November 1935; Sam Delaguerra)
• "Guns at Cyrano's" (Black Mask, January 1936; Ted Malvern originally, changed to Ted Carmady in Simple Art of Murder)
• "The Man Who Liked Dogs" (Black Mask, March 1936; Ted Carmady; cannibalized for Farewell My Lovely)
• "Noon Street Nemesis" (Detective Fiction Weekly, May 1936; Pete Anglich; title changed to "Pick Up on Noon Street" for publication in Simple Art of Murder)
• "Goldfish" (Black Mask, June 1936; Ted Carmady originally, changed to Marlowe in Simple Art of Murder)
• "The Curtain" (Black Mask, September 1936; Ted Carmady; cannibalized for The Big Sleep and the opening of The Long Goodbye)
• "Try the Girl" (Black Mask, January 1937; Ted Carmady; cannibalized for Farewell, My Lovely)
• "Mandarin's Jade" (Dime Detective, 1937; John Dalmas; cannibalized for Farewell, My Lovely)
• "Red Wind" (Dime Detective, January 1938; John Dalmas originally, changed to Marlowe in Simple Art of Murder)
• "The King in Yellow" (Dime Detective, March 1938; Steve Grayce)
• "Bay City Blues" (Dime Detective, June 1938; John Dalmas, cannibalized for The Lady in the Lake, The High Window, and The Little Sister)
• "The Lady in the Lake" (Dime Detective, January 1939; John Dalmas, cannibalized for The Lady in the Lake and The High Window)
• "Pearls Are a Nuisance" (Dime Detective, April 1939; Walter Gage)
• "Trouble is My Business" (Dime Detective, August 1939; John Dalmas originally, changed to Marlowe in Simple Art of Murder)
• "I'll Be Waiting" (The Saturday Evening Post, October 14, 1939; Tony Reseck)
• "No Crime in the Mountains" (Detective Story, September 1941; John Evans, cannibalized for The Lady in the Lake)
• "Marlowe Takes on the Syndicate" (London Daily Mail, April 6–10, 1959; published posthumously; first published in the United States as "The Wrong Pigeon" in Manhunt (February 1960; also appeared as "The Pencil", Argosy, September 1965; and "Philip Marlowe's Last Case", Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 1962)

Non-crime/fantasy short stories

• "The Bronze Door" (Unknown, November 1939)
• "Professor Bingo's Snuff" (Park East, June, July, & August 1951; also appeared in Go, June, July, & August 1951; no priority established)
• "English Summer" (Antaeus, Autumn 1976; published posthumously)

All three stories feature unnatural deaths and detectives, but the emphasis is not on the investigation.

Magazine articles

• "The Simple Art of Murder" (Atlantic Monthly, December 1944)
• "Writers in Hollywood" (Atlantic, November 1945)
• "Critical Notes" (Screen, July 1947)
• "Oscar Night in Hollywood" (Atlantic, March 1948)
• "10 Greatest Crimes of the Century" (Cosmopolitan, October 1948)
• "The Simple Art of Murder" (Saturday Review of Literature, April 15, 1950; this is not a reprint of the 1944 Atlantic article, but rather an assessment of his early pulp stories; this article, somewhat rewritten, served as the introduction to the collection The Simple Art of Murder.
• "Ten Percent of Your Life" (Atlantic, February 1952)
• "The Detective Story as an Art Form" (The Crime Writer, Spring 1959)
• "Farewell, My Hollywood" (Antaeus, Spring/Summer 1976)

Anthologies

• 5 Murderers (Avon Book Co.,New York, 1944 paperback).
• Five Sinister Characters (Avon Book Co., New York, 1945 paperback). Contains five stories: "Trouble Is My Business," "Pears Are A Nuisance," "I'll Be Waiting," "The King in Yellow," "Red Wind."
• Red Wind (World Publishing Co., Cleveland, Ohio, 1946, hardcover). Contains "Red Wind," "Blackmailers Don't Shoot," "Ill Be Waiting," "Goldfish," "Guns at Cyrano's."
• Spanish Blood (World Publishing Co., Cleveland, Ohio, 1946 Hardcover).
• The Finger Man (Avon Book Co., New York, 1947 paperback).
• Trouble is My Business (Penguin - London 1950 paperback); Contains 5 short stories: Trouble is My Business, Red Wind, I'll Be Waiting, Goldfish, Guns at Cyrano's
• The Simple Art of Murder (Houghton Mifflin Co., New York, 1950 hardcover); Contains "The Simple Art of Murder: An Essay" by Raymond Chandler (See above) and 8 short stories: Spanish Blood, I'll Be Waiting, The King in Yellow, Pearls are a Nuisance, Pickup on Noon Street, Smart-Alec Kill, Guns at Cyrano's, Nevada Gas (These are all of Chandler's crime stories that were not cannibalized for his novels except for his first story,Blackmailers Don't Shoot, and the not-yet written The Pencil.)
• Trouble is My Business: Four Stories From The Simple Art of Murder (Pocket Books N.Y. 1951 paperback); Contains 4 Philip Marlowe short stories: Trouble is My Business, Finger Man, Goldfish, Red Wind
• Killer in the Rain, introduction by Philip Durham (Houghton Mifflin Co., New York, 1964 hardcover and Hamish Hamilton (UK), 1964); Contains 8 short stories: Killer in the Rain, The Man who Liked Dogs, The Curtain, Try the Girl, Mandarin's Jade, Bay City Blues, The Lady in the Lake, No Crime in the Mountains (These are all of Chandler's crime stories that were cannibalized for his novels and that Chandler omitted from the 1950 The Simple Art of Murder.)
• The Raymond Chandler Omnibus, Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1964, hardcover) Contains four novels: "The Big Sleep," "Farewell, My Lovely," "The High Window," The Lady in the Lake."
• The Smell of Fear (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1965); Contains 14 short stories: Blackmailers Don't Shoot, Pearls are a Nuisance, Finger Man, The King in Yellow, Smart-Aleck Kill, Pick-up on Noon Street, Nevada Gas, Spanish Blood, Trouble is My Business, Red Wind, I'll Be Waiting, Goldfish, Guns at Cyrano's, The Pencil (This anthology combines the stories previously published in The Simple Art of Murder and Trouble is My Business with Chandler's first and last stories: Blackmailers Don't Shoot and The Pencil. The Smell of Fear and Killer in the Rain together form a complete collection of Chandler's short crime stories.)
• The Midnight Raymond Chandler (Houghton Mifflin Co.,New York, 1971, hardcover) ISBN 0-395-12712-2; Introduction by Joan Kahn, contains Raymond Chandler Introduces The Simple Art of Murder, Red Wind, Trouble Is My Business, Blackmailers Don't Shoot, The Pencil, The Little Sister (novel), and The Long Goodbye (novel).
• Killer in the Rain, introduction by Philip Durham (Ballantine Books, New York, 1972, paperback) Contains 8 short stories: Killer in the Rain, The Man who Liked Dogs, The Curtain, Try the Girl, Mandarin's Jade, Bay City Blues, The Lady in the Lake, No Crime in the Mountains (These are all of Chandler's crime stories that were cannibalized for his novels)
• The Simple Art of Murder (Ballantine Books, New York, 1972, paperback) Contains the essay "The Simple Art of Murder" and four stories from the same titled collection: Spanish Blood, I'll Be Waiting, " "The King In Yellow," "Pearls Are a Nuisance."
• Pickup On Noon Street (Ballantine Books, New York, 1972, paperback): contains four stories from "The Simple Art of Murder"—"Pickup on Noon Street," Smart-Aleck Kill," "Guns at Cyrano's," "Nevada Gas." (With the Ballantine edition titled The Simple Art of Murder, the complete hardcover book is reprinted.)
• Trouble is My Business (Vintage Book N.Y. 1988) Contains 12 stories: Killer in the Rain, The Man who Liked Dogs, The Curtain, Try the Girl, Mandarins Jade, Bay City Blues, The Lady in the Lake, No Crime in the Mountains, Trouble is My Business, Finger Man, Goldfish, Red Wind
• Stories & Early Novels: Pulp Stories, The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window (Frank MacShane, ed.) (Library of America, 1995) ISBN 978-1-883011-07-9.
• Later Novels & Other Writings: The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback, Double Indemnity, Selected Essays & Letters (Frank MacShane, ed.) (Library of America, 1995) ISBN 978-1-883011-08-6.
• Collected Stories (Everyman's Library, Knopf, 2002); the first single volume collection of all of Chandler's short stories.

Audiobook releases

Many of Raymond Chandler's works have been released as audiobooks in a variety of formats, including digital download from Audible.com and other vendors. Phoenix Books & Audio initially produced the audiobook versions, read by actor Elliott Gould, who portrayed Philip Marlowe in the 1973 film adaptation of The Long Goodbye. In December 2014, Audible.com released unabridged recordings of all of Chandler's seven completed novels, read by Ray Porter.

Novels

Phoenix Books & Audio (Read by Elliott Gould):

• The Big Sleep (unabridged)
• Farewell, My Lovely (unabridged)
• The High Window (abridged)
• The Lady in the Lake (abridged)
• The Little Sister (abridged)
• The Long Goodbye (abridged)
• Playback (unabridged & abridged versions)
• Poodle Springs (abridged)

Audible Studios (Read by Ray Porter):

• The Big Sleep (unabridged)
• Farewell, My Lovely (unabridged)
• The High Window (unabridged)
• The Lady in the Lake (unabridged)
• The Little Sister (unabridged)
• The Long Goodbye (unabridged)
• Playback (unabridged)

Short stories & collections

Phoenix Books & Audio (Read by Elliott Gould):

• Red Wind (unabridged)
• Trouble is My Business (unabridged)
• Bay City Blues & No Crime in the Mountains (2 stories) (unabridged)
• Mandarin's Jade and Other Stories (3 stories) (unabridged)
• Killer in the Rain and Other Stories (4 stories) (abridged)