Lot of 5 different vintage Raymond Chandler paperback books // 1.) Farewell, My Lovely / Pocket Books / 4002 / 14th printing, 1964 / front cover art by James Neil Boyle / some scuffing at bottom front cover, some mustiness, o/w clean & nice // 2.) Killer In the Rain / Ballantine Books /25728 / 3rd printing, 1977 / introduction by Philip Durham / cover art by Richard Waldrep // 3.) The Lady In the Lake / Vintage Books / V-145 / 1976 / cover art by Tom Dunn / small name in ink to front flyleaf page // 4.) The Long Goodbye / Ballantine Books / 02396-X / 3rd printing, 1973 / small name in ink inside front cover / movie tie-in edition w/ Elliott Gould pictured on front // 5.) The Simple Art of Murder / Ballantine Books / 28860 / bit of writing in ink inside front of book / crease to front cover // These are not library copies. // "Raymond Chandler was the founder of the hardboiled school of detective fiction, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and other Black Mask writers. The protagonist of his novels, Philip Marlowe, like Hammett's Sam Spade, is considered by some to be synonymous with "private detective". Both were played in films by Humphrey Bogart, whom many consider to be the quintessential Marlowe."