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Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. He’s willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe finds himself drawn into a sordid crowd of adulterers and alcoholics in LA’s Idle Valley, where the rich are suffering one big suntanned hangover. Marlowe is sure Lennox didn’t kill his wife, but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth?

Eight years ago Moose Malloy and cute little redhead Velma were getting married - until someone framed Malloy for armed robbery. Now his stretch is up and he wants Velma back. PI Philip Marlow meets Malloy one hot day in Hollywood and, out of the generosity of his jaded heart, agrees to help him. Dragged from one smoky bar to another, Marlowe's search for Velma turns up plenty of dangerous gangsters with a nasty habit of shooting first and talking later. And soon what started as a search for a missing person becomes a matter of life and death.

Toby Stephens stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Raymond Chandler’s second Philip Marlowe mystery.Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the ’40s and ’50s 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 ‘Farewell My Lovely’, Marlowe has a chance encounter with a not-so-gentle giant outside Florian’s nightclub.

Philip Marlowe’s on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband’s collection. That’s the simple part. It becomes more complicated when Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead.

El detective Philip Marlowe se enfrenta a un caso que promete ser sencillo: el viejo general Sternwood, paralítico y extremadamente rico, ha recibido una nota de chantaje que concierne a su hija menor, la salvaje Carmen. Recorriendo la ciudad desde su despacho en Hollywood Boulevard hasta las mansiones de los barrios residenciales, Marlowe deberá adentrarse en un laberinto de perversidad cada vez más oscuro. Esta edición reúne también los dos relatos pulp, publicados en la revista Black Mask, que Chandler canibalizó para escribir la novela: Asesino bajo la lluvia (1935) y El telón (1936).

Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: private investigator Philip Marlowe. He is willing to help a man down on his luck, but later Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe is drawn into a sordid crowd of adulterers and alcoholics in LA's Idle Valley, where the rich are suffering one big suntanned hangover. Marlowe is sure Lennox didn't kill his wife, but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth?

Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe's on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. That's the simple part. It becomes more complicated when Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they end up dead. That's also unlucky for a private investigator, because leaving a trail of corpses around LA puts cops' noses seriously out of joint. If Marlowe doesn't wrap this one up fast, he's going to end up either in jail or in a box in the ground....

Der Fall Austrian, der den Privatdetektiv John Dalmas nach Bay City führt, sieht zunächst ganz gewöhnlich aus. Die Frau des Arztes Leland Austrian ist tot in ihrer Garage gefunden worden. Selbstmord, sagte die Polizei. Allerdings gibt es ein paar Indizien, die nicht ins Bild passen. Aber immer, wenn John Dalmas eine Spur zu haben glaubt, stößt er auf eine weitere Leiche. Und dann ist da der Polizeisergeant de Spain, ein harter Bursche, der sich in den Kopf gesetzt hat, Chef der Mordkommission zu werden...

It's radio noir at its best! Raymond Chandler's hardboiled private detective digs into the dark underbelly of postwar Los Angeles in 20 tense radio mysteries. Gerald Mohr stars as Philip Marlowe, following the clues and plot twists through tales of suicide and secrets, death bed confessions and the old double cross, the missing and the murdered.

In the first of the four cases in Trouble is My Business, Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is offered a job that leaves a bad taste in the mouth: smearing a girl who's 'got her hooks into a rich man's pup'. Before too long Marlowe's up to his neck in corpses and cops and he's taken pity on the girl. There's nothing like making trouble out of your business.

Private investigator Philip Marlowe is hired to find a missing woman. Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a divorce and marry a hunk named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband says. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he's denying nothing - on account of the two bullet holes in his heart. Now Marlowe's on the trail of a killer, who leads him out of smoggy Los Angeles all the way to a murky mountain lake.

Toby Stephens stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Raymond Chandler’s final completed Philip Marlowe mystery.Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the ’40s and ’50s 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 ‘Playback’, Marlowe is awakened early in the morning by a phone call from a lawyer.

Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is mixing business with pleasure - he's getting paid to follow a lovely mysterious redhead called Eleanor King. And wherever Miss King goes, trouble is sure to follow. But she's easy on the eye and Marlowe's happy to do as he's told. But one dead body later and what started out as a lazy afternoon's snooping soon becomes a deadly cocktail of blackmail, lies, mistaken identity - and murder.

Terry Lennox ist ein Säufer, und das ist nicht sein einziges Problem: Seine millionenschwere Frau wurde ermordet...

Mrs. Murdock, eine reiche Witwe aus Pasadena, hat einen doppelten Auftrag für Philip Marlowe: Ihre Schwiegertochter, eine ehemalige Nachtklub-Sängerin, ist verschwunden - und gleichzeitig eine alte, wertvolle Goldmünze. Beide soll der Privatdetektiv dingfest machen. Was wie ein üblicher Auftrag begann, entwickelt sich schon bald zu einer atemberaubenden Achterbahnfahrt. Marlowes Sinn für Recht und Gerechtigkeit steht auf dem Prüfstand.

Der Ölmillionär Tony Dravec ist verzweifelt: Seine Tochter Carmen treibt sich mit dubiosen Männern herum. Der Schlimmste von ihnen ist der skrupellose Erpresser und Pornografie-Händler Harold Hardwick Steiner. Dravec engagiert einen Detektiv, um sie aus den Fängen dieses Mannes zu befreien. Als der Detektiv zu Steiners Refugium fährt, fallen dort Schüsse. Im Haus findet er ein nacktes, betrunkenes Mädchen in einem hohen Lehnsessel - zu ihren Füßen liegt ein toter Mann.

Raymond Chandler gilt mit seinem umfangreichen Werk als Pionier des modernen amerikanischen Kriminalromans. Die Helden seiner zahlreichen Romane und Kriminalkurzgeschichten repräsentieren die Prototypen der sogenannten "hardboiled detectives": hartgesottene, zynische Männer, die nicht unbedingt gesetzestreu vorgehen, wenn sie ihre gefährlichen Fälle aufklären.

General Sternwood ist steinalt, steinreich und hat zwei schöne, wilde Töchter. Die aufreizende Carmen wird erpresst, und Privatdetektiv Philip Marlowe soll die Sache aus der Welt schaffen...

Der Regisseur Derek Walden hat sich einen Namen mit erotischen Filmen gemacht. Nun wird er erpresst und bittet Privatdetektiv John Dalmas um Hilfe. Doch bevor Dalmas Näheres über die Gründe der Erpressung herausfinden kann, ist Walden tot. Dalmas beginnt mit den Ermittlungen und findet sich bald in einem undurchdringlichen Netz von Intrigen und Gewalt wieder.

Die Frau des Wirtschaftsmagnaten Howard Melton ist verschwunden. In einem Telegramm aus El Paso erfährt Melton von ihrem Plan, ihren Liebhaber zu heiraten. Als sich herausstellt, dass das nicht stimmen kann, engagiert er den Privatdetektiv John Dalmas.