Where to Start with Raymond Chandler
- Best entry point → The Big Sleep
- What fans keep coming back to → The Long Goodbye
- Highest rated by listeners → The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe #4)
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The Lady in the Lake
Philip Marlowe • Book 4
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.21 ABR Score (28.7K ratings)★ 4.06 Goodreads (28.5K) ★ 4.69 Audible (255)7h 32m listening time • Released 2021 -
The Long Goodbye
Philip Marlowe • Book 6
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.21 ABR Score (47.7K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (47.3K) ★ 4.5 Audible (399)13h 25m listening time • Released 2021 -
Farewell, My Lovely
Philip Marlowe • Book 2
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.19 ABR Score (43.7K ratings)★ 4.09 Goodreads (43.3K) ★ 4.55 Audible (417)8h 42m listening time • Released 2021 -
The High Window
Philip Marlowe • Book 3
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.12 ABR Score (26.2K ratings)★ 4.04 Goodreads (25.8K) ★ 4.51 Audible (395)7h 26m listening time • Released 2021 -
The Big Sleep
Philip Marlowe • Book 1
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.10 ABR Score (170.4K ratings)★ 3.94 Goodreads (169.7K) ★ 4.44 Audible (649)6h 33m listening time • Released 2020Chandler's debut Marlowe novel is the template for every hard-boiled detective story that followed — rain-soaked, morally ambiguous, and endlessly quotable.
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The Little Sister: Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe
Philip Marlowe • Book 5
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.05 ABR Score (19.3K ratings)★ 3.98 Goodreads (19.1K) ★ 4.53 Audible (208)8h 24m listening time • Released 2021 -
Playback: Raymond Chandler
Philip Marlowe • Book 7
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 3.86 ABR Score (11.3K ratings)★ 3.79 Goodreads (11.2K) ★ 4.4 Audible (126)5h 26m listening time • Released 2021
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