by Raymond Chandler · Presses Pocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266017756
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«Les Nouvelles Volume Un» is the collection of crime stories by Raymond Chandler, published by Presses Pocket in paperback, in French.
A collection of crime stories by Raymond Chandler, a sample of his short fiction within the noir genre. The stories share an urban, nocturnal setting, with detectives, vintage cars and crimes that the protagonists must solve; the cover illustration, with a man in a hat before the city, sets that tone.
First volume of Chandler's stories in two volumes within the Presses Pocket collection (No. 2663/2664), published in 1986.
For readers of crime fiction and fans of Raymond Chandler who want to explore their short stories.
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime. All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once.
