Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: a Centennial Celebration
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Edited by Byron Preiss, Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: a Centennial Celebration (ISBN 0-394-57327-7) is an anthology of short stories collected for the centenary of Raymond Chandler's birth, in 1988.[1] Containing 23 stories[1] by such noted crime-writers as Robert B. Parker,[2] Sara Paretsky,[1] Loren D. Estleman,[1] Stuart M. Kaminsky,[3] and Ed Gorman[3] each tale takes place in one of the years that Philip Marlowe was active as a private eye (1935–1959). As well, the anthology includes The Pencil, Chandler's last Marlowe short story.[4]