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Raymond Chandler bibliography

I am composing a bibliography (31 languages yet) of all the translations of by RC's thrillers. I collect them too.

Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)
He published only a few novels during his life

	first	all editions	I have
The Big Sleep	Am 1939 En 1939	114 edition	83
Farewell, my Lovely	Am 1940 En 1940	93 editions	60
The High Window	Am 1942 En 1943	54 editions	29
The Lady in the Lake	Am 1943 En 1944	67 editions	40
The Little Sister	En 1949 Am 1949	47 editions	37
The Long Good-Bye	En 1953 Am 1954	67 editions	40
Playback	En 1958 Am 1958	38 editions	34
*= 67,29 %*	-	480	323

157 to go

Next to these, he published twelve collections of short stories. To see more info on his short stories, click here

	first	all editions	I have
Five murderers	1944	2 editions	2
Five sinister characters	1945	3 editions	3
Finger man	1946	3 editions	3
Red wind	1946	6 editions	6
Spanish Blood	1946	2 editions	1
The Simple Art of Murder	1950	21 editions	15
Trouble is my Business	1950	41 editions	35
Pick-up on Noon Street	1950	16 editions	14
Smart-aleck Kill	1953	15 editions	11
Pearls are a nuisance	1958	13 editions	11
Killer in the rain	1964	32 editions	27
The Smell of Fear	1965	6 editions	4
*= 82,50 %*	-	160	132

28 to go

For a short summary of his life, click here
For a survey of Chandlermovies, click here

Backfire story for the screen	1984	1	1
22 collections Novels and stories have been collected	-	22	22
*Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe* Centennial anniversary of his birthday. New stories by famous P.I. writers	1988	6	6
The Poodle Springs Story Chandlers heirs asked P.I. writer Robert B. Parker to complete an unfinished novel	1989	14	14
Perchance to dream Parker wrote a sequel to The Big Sleep	1991	11	9
Raymond Chandler Speaking His letters	1962	11	10
Blue Dahlia He also wrote a screenplay	1976	7	4
Goldfish separate edition of a short story	-	3	2
The Notebooks Chandler's private diary	1976	2	2
Mandarin's Jade separate edition of a short story	1996	3	3
Novels by other authors Mysteries with Chandler as character	-	7	7
Trivia Fun can be found here	-	36	31
Works about Of course, lots of studies on RC	-	49	41
= 89,41 %	-	170	152

18 to go

	all	I have	%	to go
english	810	607	72,75	203
translations	1175	746	63,39	429
total	1985	1353	68,16	632

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Chandler translations in

	editions	I have...
Bulgarian
Catalan	21	14
Chinese	9	0
Czech	62	51
Croatian	9	0
Danish	63	56
Dutch	35	35
Estonian	7	5
Finnish	48	37
French	130	127
German	188	180
Greec	15	2
Hungarian	24	16
Icelandic	2	1
Itzulpena	2	1
Italian	124	26
Japanese
Korean	8	5
Latvian	5	1
Lithuanian	21	7
Norwegian	36	14
Persian	1	0
Polish	42	39
Portuguese	71	32
Romanian	8	2
Russian	7	2
Slovak	3	3
Slovenian	5	0
Spanish	167	45
Swedish	47	44
Turkish	15	0
*= 62,68 %*	1175	746

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updated march 01, 2008
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