Poodle Springs Author:Raymond Chandler, Robert B. Parker When Raymond Chandler died in 1959, he left behind the first four chapters of a Philip Marlowe thriller. Now, thirty years later, Poodle Springs is published as a full length work because of a most unusual, inspired, and wonderfully successful experiment by the man considered the foremost interpreter of the Chandler tradition. Robert B Parker ... more »has brought to vivid life the gritty, gripping world of Chandler and his sleuth, Philip Marlowe, in a book no private eye aficionado will be able to resist.« less