Unpublished Raymond Chandler work discovered in Library of Congress

Author’s unpublished comic opera, The Princess and the Pedlar, found almost 100 years since it was first registered

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An early, never-before-published work by crime novelist Raymond Chandler has been discovered in the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.

The 48-page libretto to the comic opera The Princess and the Pedlar, with music by Julian Pascal, has hidden in plain sight at the library since its copyright was first registered on 29 August 1917.

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