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 Cover of the first edition | |
| Author | Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Philip Marlowe |
| Genre | Crime fiction |
| Publisher | G. P. Putnam's Sons |
Publication date | October 1989 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover, 1989, and paperback, 1990) |
| Pages | 290 (paperback edition) |
| ISBN | 0-425-12343-X (pb) |
| OCLC | 22651781 |
| Preceded by | Playback |
Poodle Springs is the eighth Philip Marlowe novel. It was started in 1958 by Raymond Chandler, who left it unfinished at his death in 1959. The four chapters he had completed, which bore the working title The Poodle Springs Story, were subsequently published in Raymond Chandler Speaking (1962), a collection of excerpts from letters and unpublished writings.[1] In 1988, on the occasion of the centenary of Chandler's birth, the crime writer Robert B. Parker was asked by the estate of Raymond Chandler to complete the novel.[2]