Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Curtain | 1936 | Raymond Chandler | Buy |
| 2 | Bay City Blues | 1938 | Raymond Chandler | Buy |
| 3 | The Bronze Door | 1939 | Raymond Chandler | N/A |
| 4 | Professor Bingo’s Snuff | 1951 | Raymond Chandler | Buy |
| 5 | English Summer | 1976 | Raymond Chandler | Buy |
| 6 | Goldfish | 1981 | Raymond Chandler | Buy |
| 7 | The Man Who Liked Dogs | 1996 | Raymond Chandler | Buy |
| 8 | I’ll Be Waiting | 2020 | Raymond Chandler | Buy |
Raymond Chandler’s individual short stories span from the 1930s through the 1950s, with some published posthumously. Early stories like The Curtain (1936) and Bay City Blues (1938) appeared in pulp magazines and helped Chandler develop the style and settings he would later use in the Philip Marlowe novels.
Several of these stories were “cannibalized” by Chandler for his novels, meaning characters and plot elements were reworked into longer narratives. Stories like Goldfish and The Man Who Liked Dogs stand on their own as compact examples of Chandler’s hard-boiled prose.