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Hardcover. 25 stories each featuring Philip Marlow, and arranged chronologically throughout Chandler's career - each story is preceded by a graphic illustration by Paul Rivoche, Javier Romero, John Martinez, Dennis Ziemienski, or Dean Motter and followed by an afterword in which the author comments on the influence Chandler's stories have had on his or her work. Contributors include Max Allan Collins, Benjamin M. Schultz, Loren D. Estleman, Joyce Harrington, Jonathan Valin, Dick Lochte, W.R. Philbrick, Sara Paretsky, Julie Smith, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Francis M. Nevins, Jr., Roger L. Simon, John Lutz, Simon Brett, Robert Randisi, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Robert Crais, Edward D. Hoch, Jeremiah Healy, Ed Gorman, James Grady, Eric Van Lustbader, as well as an introduction by Robert Parker and 'The Pencil' by Raymond Chandler, his last story. In addition, this edition includes 2 more stories than the 1988 centennial edition - by Roger Simon and J. Madison Davis. Notes on the authors and illustrators. 297 pp plus a double page map of Chandler's Los Angeles. Fine in near fine dust jacket. .ISBN # 0-671-038907 

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