Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) was an American novelist as well as a screenwriter. He is best known for his hardboiled detective novels and stories (largely featuring Philip Marlowe) and influenced many people in different mediums, including authors Robert B. Parker, Robert Crais, Michael Connelly and filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers.

Although his first novel wasn’t published until 1939 (The Big Sleep), Chandler’s first work of fiction was the short story Blackmailers Don’t Shoot in 1933. Below is a list of all of Raymond Chandler’s novels in order of when they were originally published (and in chronological order):

Publication Order of Philip Marlowe Books

The Big Sleep (1939)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Farewell, My Lovely (1940)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The High Window (1942)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Lady in the Lake (1943)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Little Sister (1949)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Long Goodbye (1953)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Playback (1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Poodle Springs (With: Robert B. Parker) (1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Perchance to Dream (By: Robert B. Parker) (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Black-Eyed Blonde (By: Benjamin Black) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Only to Sleep (By: Lawrence Osborne) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Goodbye Coast (By: Joe Ide) (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Second Murderer (By: Denise Mina) (2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The Curtain (1936)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Try The Girl (1937)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mandarin's Jade (1937)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
No Crimes In The Mountains (1941)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Goldfish (1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Man Who Liked Dogs (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
I’ll Be Waiting (With: Chandler Raymond) (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Five Murders (1944)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Five Sinister Characters (1945)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Red Wind (1946)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Spanish Blood (1946)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Finger Man (1947)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Simple Art of Murder (1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Trouble is My Business (1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pickup on Noon Street (1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Smart-Aleck Kill (1953)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pearls are a Nuisance (1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Killer in the Rain (1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Smell of Fear (1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Screenplays Books

Double Indemnity (With: Billy Wilder) (1944)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Blue Dahlia (1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler (1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Selected Letters (1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The World of Raymond Chandler (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

Hard-Boiled Detectives(1953)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Great Law and Order Stories(1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Oxford Book of Detective Stories(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Writing Los Angeles(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pulp Fiction - The Dames(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Los Angeles Noir 2(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Books to Die For(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Writers: Their Lives and Works(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Note: Poodle Springs was completed by Robert B. Parker.

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