The Collected Radio Dramas: BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations

Chandler, Raymond

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9781408469972: The Collected Radio Dramas: BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations

ISBN 10: 1408469979 ISBN 13: 9781408469972

Publisher: BBC Books, 2011

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Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the 1940s and 1950s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily. In these eight adaptations he finds himself dealing with all kinds of trouble—in the form of gangsters, hit men, deadly dames, cops, and corpses—while trying to avoid ending up in jail or six feet under. Includes the following stories: The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely, The High Window, and Poodle Springs, dramatized by Robin Brooks; and The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, and Playback, dramatized by Stephen Wyatt.

14 CDs. 11 hrs.

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About the Author

Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888. He was educated at Dulwich College, London and studied international law in France and Germany. He published a number of poems and essays in local papers and worked as a reporter, essayist, and book reviewer. After serving for the Canadian Army during World War I he became a bookkeeper and auditor for Dabney Oil Syndicate. In 1939 he published The Big Sleep to instant acclaim in Britain and the US, introducing the world to his iconic private eye, Philip Marlowe. With Farewell My Lovely and The Long Goodbye, Chandler cemented his reputation as a giant of American popular culture and master of a style of detective fiction that would be widely admired and imitated. Chandler turned to screenwriting with Double Indemnity. He continued to write for Hollywood during the heyday of the Hollywood studio system, receiving an Oscar nomination for The Blue Dahlia. In 1946 Chandler received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for screenplay and in 1954 for novel writing. During the last year of his life he was made President of the Mystery Writers of America. He died from pneumonia in 1959.

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