by Raymond Chandler · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788402058553
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«Asesino en la lluvia» is a collection of detective stories by Raymond Chandler, published by Bruguera in paperback, in Spanish.
Detective stories that appeared in pulp magazines such as Black Mask and Dime Detective Magazine. Chandler later reused several of these plots and scenes in his Philip Marlowe novels. Includes «The Man Who Liked Dogs», «The Lady in the Lake» and «Bay City Blues».
The original is «Killer in the Rain» (1964). This edition belongs to the Libro Amigo collection (No. 592) and the Novela Negra series (No. 22).
For fans of noir and detective fiction; it shows the earlier material Chandler reused in his Philip Marlowe novels.
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime. All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once.
