Killer in the Rain gathers together eight Chandler stories of crime and suspense, violence and tragedy set against the backcloth of 'that hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup.' Read More...

The client was called Derace Kingsley. He had a voice you could have cracked a brazil nut on and a wife he'd not seen for a month. He'd got a telegram that talked about a Mexico divorce and he wanted Marlowe to take it up from there. Read More...

Mrs Elizabeth Bright Murdock wanted to hire a reliable detective to find a rare coin she had lost. She knew who had stolen it but, as she told Philip Marlowe, she wanted to keep the information a purely family matter. Read More...

Full of glitter and tension, the four stories in this collection are vintage Chandler, set in the smoke-filled bars and condos of Los Angeles city where 'The streets are dark with something more than night...' Read More...

Walter Gage is hired by his fiancée to find Mrs Penruddock's stolen pink pearls. His investigations need to be discreet because it would be embarrassing if word gets out that they're fakes ... Read More...

So John Dalmas is hired to smear a girl, a gold-digging lady with bedroom eyes. Forerunner of Philip Marlowe, like the other private eyes in these five stories, Dalmas is tough-talking and soft-centred - and trouble is his business. Read More...

When Ellie Pascoe finds herself under threat, the men in her life assume it's because she's married to a cop. But while they trawl after shoals of red herrings, Ellie is blasted off course with a motley crew of women on a voyage of discovery whose perils make Scylla and Charybdis look like a pair of Barbie dolls. Read More...

The questions are piling up and Doug McHarg can't stop asking them, even when he's warned off by his boss in the local police force, Scotland Yard, and by increasingly professional death threats. The pattern that emerges is of a shadowy, immensely powerful organization, with a reach that extends to the White House and the English throne. Read More...

Molly Keatly is deeply contented with her life, her loving husband, her comfortable home in an attractive London suburb. Until she finds out that her husband, it appears, has spent nearly a decade using her for his own purposes, and now the British Intelligence want to use her for theirs. But she's no longer prepared to be anybody's pawn. Read More...

Shocking allegations have been directed at Chris Porphyry. When Chris turns to Joe Sixsmith, PI, he's more than willing to help only Joe hadn't counted on being kissed and dangled out of a window all in the same day! Before long though, Joe's on the trail of a conspiracy that starts with missing bells, and ends with murder... Read More...