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Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out - and that's before he stumbles over the first corpse.

The complete collection of landmark BBC Radio dramas of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe mysteries. Philip Marlowe is the archetypal noir detective: wisecracking and world weary, hard boiled yet honourable. This volume includes all eight dramatisations of Raymond Chandler's groundbreaking crime novels featuring his iconic hero.

They never came tougher than Marlowe, a cynical, world-weary, wise-cracking shamus whose honesty in a dishonest world sent him down the mean streets again and again in search of some kind of justice. Ed Bishop stars as Philip Marlowe in these powerfully atmospheric BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Raymond Chandler's novels. 

A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.

A brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of a classic Raymond Chandler mystery featuring private eye, Philip Marlowe. Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away.

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.

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?

Marlowe is back...and he's married to a rich, beautiful society lady who wants him to settle down in the posh desert community of Poodle Springs. Marlowe may have married rich, but old habits die hard: he's hired to recover a gambling debt and soon finds himself in a case involving bigamy, pornography and murder. The first four chapters of this final Marlowe mystery were written by noir master Raymond Chandler at the end of his life. Robert B. Parker was chosen by Chandler's estate to complete his last work.

From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by “the seminal and venerated mystery pulp magazine” ( Booklist).

He's tall. He's tough. He's the king of the hardboiled private eyes, and he's stalking the rain-swept streets of postwar Los Angeles. He's Philip Marlowe, here with 20 thrill-a-minute episodes produced and directed by Norman Macdonnell. Tough-voiced Gerald Mohr plays Raymond Chandler's Marlowe as a man who has been burned by the world a little too often for his own good. He finds mysteries among valuables and the violent, facing down false witnesses and frame-ups.

Raymond Chandler’s famous private eye, Philip Marlowe, comes to life in this 44-episode collection of season one of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe radio show, featuring the original cast recordings originally aired on the CBS Radio Network from 1948-1950. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe was a fan favorite for its no-nonsense, hard-boiled approach to crime solving and is presented here in 44 commercial-free episodes. 

Van Heflin and Gerald Mohr each play the title role in these electric episodes, cracking wise with the of angry glee of a take-charge operative who careens, cajoles, shoves, shouts, and sometime shoots his way to a solution in his quest for a stolen object, a missing person, or a killer needing to be found. Includes two Van Heflin episodes never before available to the public since their original broadcast. Includes 20 digitally restored and re-mastered episodes.

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.

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.

Walter Gage soll das Perlencollier von Mrs. Penruddocks wiederbeschaffen, ohne die Polizei einzuschalten. Dass es sich dabei um ein wertloses Imitat handelt, macht die Suche umso dringlicher - schließlich soll die Öffentlichkeit nichts davon erfahren. Mit dem Hauptverdächtigen teilt Gage eine Leidenschaft: den Whiskey. Eine gefährliche Kombination.

Privatdetektiv John Evans wird in die südkalifornischen San-Bernardino-Berge gerufen. Dort stören einige Geheimagenten aus Nazi-Deutschland das trügerische Idyll des Hochgebirges mit Sabotageakten und Propagandatätigkeiten, mit denen sie in den USA Fuß fassen wollen. John Evans soll ihrem Treiben ein Ende setzen.

Steve Grayce, Hausdetektiv im Carlton-Hotel, soll sich um den Gast aus Zimmer 815 kümmern. Dort wohnt King Leopardi, der im gelben Seidenpyjama Trompete spielt und damit die Nachtruhe der anderen Hotelgäste gefährdet. Doch bald erfährt Grayce, dass es jemand auf King Leopardi abgesehen hat. Hängt das mit dem Zimmer 815 zusammen, wo sich vor Jahren ein Mädchen umgebracht hat?

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.

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.