Raymond Chandler wrote seven novels. I read somewhere that his favourite was "The long good-bye", but I didn't care for that one so much. I think my favourite w

Raymond Chandler wrote seven novels. I read somewhere that his favourite was "The long good-bye", but I didn't care for that one so much. I think my favourite was "The lady in the lake", though that's the last of the four Chandler novels that made it into this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Top_100_Crime_Novels_of_All_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Top_100_Crime_Novels_of_Al... I only read "Playback" for completeness: that last one is definitely less interesting than the others. There are also the short stories, some of which were later incorporated into the novels and are therefore not republished so often in their original form. Chandler referred to them as "cannibalised".