The Complete Novels

This volume collects the seven Philip Marlowe novels. The Los Angeles private detective takes cases that begin as missing-persons or blackmail jobs and open into murder, civic corruption, and the entertainment business. Recurring settings are oil suburbs, canyon houses, hotels, and police offices; recurring figures are clients who lie, crooked doctors, and women whose stories do not hold. The books run from The Big Sleep through Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window, The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, and Playback. The set is a run of hardboiled detective novels, not a single continuous saga.

3rd printing with new illustrations and redrawn binding illustration. Light grey seven-volume slipcase titled in silver and a silhouette of a city skyline in black.