Raymond Chandler Bibliography

Novels

The Big Sleep (1939; Philip Marlowe)
Farewell, My Lovely (1940, Philip Marlowe)
The High Window (1942, Philip Marlowe)
The Lady in the Lake (1943, Philip Marlowe)
The Little Sister (1949, Philip Marlowe)
The Long Goodbye (1953, Philip Marlowe)
Playback (1958, Philip Marlowe)
Poodle Springs (1959/1989, completed by Robert B. Parker; Philip Marlowe)
The Blue Dahlia (1976, screenplay)
Raymond Chandler’s Unknown Thriller: The Screenplay of Playback (1985, reworked as the 1958 Marlowe novel)

Stories in Periodicals and Newspapers

Unknown Love (December 19, 1908, Chamber’s Journal, Poem)

The Poet’s Knowledge (March 3, 1909, Westminster Gazette, Poem)
The Soul’s Defiance (March 5, 1909, Westminster Gazette, Poem)
The Wheel (March 25, 1909, Westminster Gazette, Poem)
Art (April 16, 1909, Westminster Gazette, Poem)
A Woman’s Way (April 22, 1909, Westminster Gazette, Poem)
The Quest (June 2, 1909, Westminster Gazette, Poem)
When I was King (June 9, 1909, Westminster Gazette, Poem)
The Hour of Chaos (June 18, 1909, Westminster Gazette, Poem)
The Bed of Roses (June 29, 1909, Westminster Gazette, Poem)
The Reformer (July 29, 1909, Westminster Gazette, Poem)
The Perfect Knight (September 30, 1909, Westminster Gazette, Poem)
The Pilgrim in Mediation (November 8, 1909, Westminster Gazette, Poem)
The Pioneer (November 17, 1909, Westminster Gazette, Poem)

The Hermit (February 28, 1910, Westminster Gazette, Poem)
The Dancer (May 14, 1910, The Academy, Poem)
The Death of the King (July 16, 1910, The Spectator, Poem)

The Clay God (January 4, 1911, Westminster Gazette, Poem)
Untitled (March 18, 1911, The Academy, Review)
The Unseen Planets (April 21, 1911, Westminster Gazette, Poem)
The Tears That Sweeten Woe (May 1, 1911, Poem)
The Fairy King (May 3, 1911, Westminster Gazette, Poem)
Untitled (June 16, 1911, Westminster Gazette, Poem)
The Genteel Artist (August 19, 1911, The Academy, Poem)
The Remarkable Hero (September 9, 1911, The Academy, Essay)
The Literary Fop (November 4, 1911, The Academy, Essay)
An Old House (November 15, 1911, Westminster Gazette, Poem)
Untitled (December 23, 1911, The Academy, Book review)

Realism and Fairyland (January 6, 1912, The Academy, Essay)
The Tropical Romance (January 20, 1912, The Academy, Essay)
Houses to Let (February 24, 1912, The Academy, Essay)
The King (March 1, 1912, Westminster Gazette, Poem)
Time Shall Not Die (April 25, 1912, Westminster Gazette, Poem)
The Art of Loving and Dying (June 22, 1912, The Academy, Review)
The Rural Labourer at Home (June 22, 1912, The Academy, Review)
The Phrasemaker (June 29, 1912, The Academy, Essay)

Blackmailers Don’t Shoot (December 1933, Black Mask)
Smart-Aleck Kill (July 1934, Black Mask)
Finger Man (October 1934, Black Mask)
Killer in the Rain (January 1935, Black Mask)
Nevada Gas (June 1935, Black Mask)
Spanish Blood (November 1935, Black Mask)
Guns at Cyrano’s (January 1936, Black Mask)
The Man Who Liked Dogs (March 1936, Black Mask)
Noon Street Nemesis (May 30, 1936, Detective Fiction Weekly)
Goldfish (June 1936, Black Mask)
The Curtain (September 1936, Black Mask)
Try the Girl (January 1937, Black Mask)
Mandarin’s Jade (November 1937, Dime Detective Magazine)
Red Wind (January 1938, Dime Detective Magazine)
The King in Yellow (March 1938, Dime Detective Magazine)
Bay City Blues (June 1938; Dime Detective Magazine)
The Lady in the Lake (January 1939, Dime Detective Magazine)
Pearls Are a Nuisance (April 1939, Dime Detective Magazine)
Trouble Is My Business (August 1939, Dime Detective Magazine)
I’ll Be Waiting (October 14, 1939, Saturday Evening Post)
The Bronze Door (November 1939, Unknown Worlds)
No Crime in the Mountains (September 1941, Detective Story)
Professor Bingo’s Snuff (June-August 1951, Park East Magazine)
English Summer (1957; first printed in 1976, The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler)
Marlowe Takes on the Syndicate (April 6-10, 1959, London Daily Mail; aka “Philip Marlowe’s Last Case” in January 1962, EQMM; aka “The Pencil” in September 1965, Argosy; as Wrong Pidgeon in February 1969, Manhunt)

Chandler did not allow these stories to be collected and printed in his lifetime, but they were collected in “Killer in the Rain,” (1964) published after his death. Several of his short stories originally featured protagonists other than Marlowe, but became Marlowe stories (or, in a few cases, John Dalmas) when they were collected, notably in “The Simple Art of Murder.”

Collections

Five Murderers (1944)
Five Sinister Characters (1945)
The Finger Man and Other Stories (1946)
Spanish Blood (1946)
Red Wind (1946)
The Simple Art of Murder (1950)
Trouble is My Business (1950)
Pick-Up On Noon Street (1953)
Killer in the Rain (1964)
Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels (1995)
Raymond Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings (1995)
Raymond Chandler: Collected Stories (2002)
Raymond Chandler: The Library of America Edition (2014)

Short Non-Fiction

The Simple Art of Murder (December 1944, The Atlantic Monthly)
Writers in Hollywood (November 1945, The Atlantic Monthly)
Critical Notes (July 1947, Screen Writer)
Oscar Night in Hollywood (March 1948, The Atlantic Monthly)
The Simple Art of Murder (April 15, 1950, Saturday Review of Literature; revised version of the December 1944 Atlantic Monthly article)
A Couple of Writers (1951; first published in 1984, Raymond Chandler Speaking)
Ten Per Cent of Your Life (February 1952, The Atlantic Monthly)

Scripts

Many of Chandler’s works were used as the basis for films. The following are where he is credited as the writer of the performed script.

Double Indemnity (1944, Paramount Pictures) *
And Now Tomorrow (1944, Paramount Pictures)
The Unseen (1945, Paramount Pictures)
The Blue Dahlia (Paramount Pictures)
Strangers on a Train (1951, Warner Bros.) **

*Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
** Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

Unproduced Scripts
1946, Paramount Pictures)
Playback (1947–48, Universal Studios)

Miscellany

Raymond Chandler on Writing (1962, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Letters, criticism and fiction)
Raymond Chandler Speaking (1962, Hamish Hamilton, Letters, criticism and fiction)
Chandler before Marlowe: Raymond Chandler’s Early Prose and Poetry, 1908–1912 (1973, University of South Carolina Press, Prose and poetry)
1976, Ecco Press, Prose and story)
Raymond Chandler and James M. Fox: Letters (1979, Privately printed, Letters)
Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler (1981, Columbia University Press, Letters)
Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe: A Centennial Celebration (1990, Perigee Books, Stories)
Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels (1995, Library of America, Prose)
Raymond Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings (1995, Library of America, Prose)
2000, Hamish Hamilton, Letters and essays)
The Princess and the Pedlar (1917 / discovered 2014, unpublished, Los Angeles comic operetta libretto)

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