Philip Marlowe Stories by other writers

Ich war neugierig, ob es Philip Marlowe Stories von anderen Autoren als Raymond Chandler gibt. Anlass war ein neues Buch, das ich einer Verlagsvorschau auf das neue Jahr gefunden habe. Das Ergebnis meiner Suche möchte ich euch nicht vorenthalten. Es fing bereits in den 80ern an, das Autoren und Autorinnen Stories mit Philip Marlowe schrieben. Eine Kurzgeschichtensammlung erschien bei Bastei Lübbe in 2 Bänden. Robert B. Parker durfte 1989 "Poodle Springs" vollenden, den Raymond Chandler leider nicht zu Ende schreiben konnte. Es folgte 1991 eine Fortsetzung zu "The Big Sleep". Beide Romane erschienen auf Deutsch bei Goldmann. Danach folgte eine Pause bis 2014. John Banville (Benjamin Black) schrieb "The Black-Eyed Blonde", der vor kurzem verfilmt wurde (auf deutsch bei Kiepenheuer und Witsch, 2018). 3 weitere Krimis von 3 Autoren erschienen bis 2023. Alle drei bisher auf deutsch unveröffentlicht. "The Black

Authorized works by other writers

• El Diez Por Ciento de Vida by Hiber Conteris (Spain, 1985), English translation as Ten Percent of Life by Deborah Bergmann (1987, Marlowe probes the 1956 "suicide" of a Hollywood literary agent, one of whose clients is Raymond Chandler.
• Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: A Centennial Celebration, ed. Byron Preiss (1988; extended edition 1999, reprints The Pencil alongside Philip Marlowe stories by other authors:
  • "The Perfect Crime" by Max Allan Collins
  • "The Black-Eyed Blonde" by Benjamin M. Schutz
  • "Gun Music" by Loren D. Estleman
  • "Saving Grace" by Joyce Harrington
  • "Malibu Tag Team" by Jonathan Valin
  • "Sad-Eyed Blonde" by Dick Lochte
  • "The Empty Sleeve" by W. R. Philbrick
  • "Dealer's Choice" by Sara Paretsky
  • "Red Rock" by Julie Smith
  • "The Deepest South" by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
  • "Consultation in the Dark" by Francis M. Nevins Jr.
  • "In the Jungle of Cities" by Roger L. Simon
  • "Star Bright" by John Lutz
  • "Stardust Kill" by Simon Brett
  • "Locker 246" by Robert J. Randisi
  • "Bitter Lemons" by Stuart M. Kaminsky
  • "The Man Who Knew Dick Bong" by Robert Crais
  • "Essence D'Orient" by Edward D. Hoch
  • "In the Line of Duty" by Jeremiah Healey
  • "The Alibi" by Ed Gorman
  • "The Devil's Playground" by James Grady
  • "Asia" by Eric Van Lustbader
  • "Mice" by Robert Campbell
  • "Sixty-Four Squares" by J. Madison Davis (1999 edition)
  • "Summer in Idle Valley" by Roger L. Simon (1999 edition)

Authorized novels by other writers

• Poodle Springs 1989, by Robert B. Parker. An authorized completion of Chandler's unfinished last work; the original text 'The Poodle Springs Story' had been published alongside excerpts from Chandler's letters, notes and essays in Raymond Chandler Speaking (1971), by Dorothy Gardener and Katherine Sorley Walker. New York: Books for Library Press.
• Perchance to Dream (1991, by Robert B. Parker. An authorized sequel to Chandler's The Big Sleep.
• The Black-Eyed Blonde (2014), by John Banville writing as "Benjamin Black, is an authorized sequel to The Long Goodbye, and reuses the title of Benjamin M. Schutz's otherwise-unrelated Marlowe story.
• Only to Sleep (2018), by Lawrence Osborne, finds the elderly Marlowe in Mexico in 1988, investigating the “accidental” swimming death of a debt-ridden con man/developer.
• The Goodbye Coast (2022), by Joe Ide, a reimagining of the character, set in present day Los Angeles.
• The Second Murderer (2023), by Denise Mina

Original Philip Marlowe works by Raymond Chandler

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• The Big Sleep (1939)
• Farewell, My Lovely (1940)
• The High Window (1942)
• The Lady in the Lake (1943)
• The Little Sister (1949)
• The Long Goodbye (1953)
• Playback (1958)
• "The Pencil" (or "Marlowe Takes On the Syndicate", "Wrong Pigeon" and "Philip Marlowe's Last Case") (1959), (short story). Chandler's last completed work about Marlowe, his first Marlowe short story in more than 20 years and the first short story originally written about Marlowe
• The Poodle Springs Story in Raymond Chandler Speaking (1962) (only the first four chapters were completed and then left unfinished at Chandler's death in 1959; Robert B. Parker extended the material to a full-length novel, Poodle Springs, in 1989.)