Raymond Chandler's books about Philip Marlowe not only laid the foundations for the hardboiled detective genre, but also became modern classics in the broadest sense. “Raymond Chandler is a most original stylist, and his hero Philip Marlowe is as immortal as Sherlock Holmes,” wrote the venerable Anthony Burgess. This edition contains the final four (of seven) novels about the famous private detective - "Blonde in the Lake", "Little Sister", "The Long Goodbye" and "Reversal". Marlowe represents a new type of detective hero: he is a romantic, sentimental knight, always maintaining his individuality and observing a code of honor. He is not looking for adventure - they find it themselves, and the plot, replete with signature dizzying intricacies, begins, as a rule, quite innocently. Thus, in “Blonde in the Lake,” the director of a large perfume company instructs Marlow to find his wife who has run away from a country house; in “Little Sister,” a naive provincial girl from Manhattan, Kansas, begs a detective to find her missing brother in Los Angeles; in The Long Goodbye, Marlowe comes under police pressure after refusing to help a friend in desperate need; and in “Reverse Passage” he receives the task of following a certain Eleanor King, arriving from Washington to Los Angeles on the “Superchief” express... Several reference noir films were based on Chandler’s plots, and for many, the image of Marlowe is strongly associated with the personality of Humphrey Bogart. "Blonde in the Lake" was filmed in 1946 by Robert Montgomery, who himself played the title role, and it was one of the first films in world cinema to be shot from start to finish with a subjective camera. A film adaptation of Little Sister starring James Garner was released in 1969 under the title Marlowe; It was this picture by Paul Bogart that first introduced American audiences to Bruce Lee. The Long Goodbye was brought to the screen in 1973 by Robert Altman; The leading role was played by Elliott Gould, and the script was written by Leigh Brackett, who together with William Faulkner worked on the script for The Eternal Sleep, the classic film adaptation of the first Marlowe novel, filmed by Howard Hawks in 1946. Contents: Blonde in the Lake (novel, translated by M. Zinde ), pp. 5-202 Sister (novel, translation by D. Voznyakevich), pp. 203-428 Long farewell (novel, translation by M. Klevetenko), pp. 429-738 Reverse move (novel, translation by A. Livergant), pp. 739- 892