Cover of Poodle Springs

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Poodle Springs

Portrait of Raymond ChandlerRaymond Chandler

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Poodle Springs is the eighth Philip Marlowe novel. It was started in 1958 by Raymond Chandler, who left it unfinished at his death in 1959. The four chapters he had completed, which bore the working title The Poodle Springs Story, were subsequently published in Raymond Chandler Speaking (1962), a collection of excerpts from letters and unpublished writings. In 1988, on the occasion of the centenary of Chandler's birth, the crime writer Robert B. Parker was asked by the estate of Raymond Chandler to complete the novel.

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GenreCrime & thriller· first published 1989

Vivek’s Notes

Chandler's prose was often called hard-boiled, and his detective was made for Hollywood. He left "Poodle Springs" unfinished when he died; it was completed by Robert B. Parker and published in 1989.

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