Stories and Early Novels ─ Pulp Stories/the Big Sleep/Farewell, My Lovely/the High Window

Stories and Early Novels includes every story that Chandler did not later incorporate into a novel - thirteen in all. Drawn from the pages of Black Mask and Dime Detective, these stories show how Chandler adapted the violent conventions of the pulp magazines - with their brisk exposition and rapid-fire dialogue - to his own emerging vision of 20th-century America.
Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels contains a newly researched chronology of Chandler's life, explanatory notes, and an essay on the texts.

Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) was one of the pioneers of hard-bolied detective fiction, a form he perfected in his celebrated Philip Marlowe novels, including The Big Sleep, The Lady in the Lake, and The Long Goodbye.

Frank MacShane?(1927–1999) was author of?The Life of Raymond Chandler?and?Raymond Chandler: A Bibliography?and editor of?The Letters of Raymond Chandler?and?The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler.