Collected stories
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Collected stories
（Everyman's library, 257）
Everyman Publishers, 2002
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Note
Bibliography: p. xxiv-xxv
Chronology: p. xxvi-xxxvii
Contents of Works
- Blackmailers don't shoot
- Smart-Aleck kill
- Finger man
- Killer in the rain
- Nevada gas
- Spanish blood
- Guns at Cyrano's
- The man who liked dogs
- Pickup on noon street
- Goldfish
- The curtain
- Try the girl
- Mandarin's jade
- Red wind
- The king in yellow
- Bay City blues
- The lady in the lake
- Pearls are a nuisance
- Trouble is my business
- I'll be waiting
- The bronze door
- No crime in the mountains
- Professor Bingo's snuff
- The pencil
- English summer
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The only complete collection of shorter fiction by the undisputed master of detective literature, assembled here for the first time in one volume, includes stories unavailable for decades. When Raymond Chandler turned to writing at the age of forty-five, he began by publishing in pulp magazines such as Black Mask before later writing his famous novels. In these stories Chandler honed his art and developed his uniquely vivid underworld, peopled with good cops and bad cops, informers and extortionists, lethally predatory blondes and redheads, and crime, sex, gambling and alcohol in abundance. In addition to his classic detective fiction - in which his signature atmosphere of depravity and violence swirls around cool, intuitive loners such as Philip Marlowe - Chandler turned his hand to fantasy and even a Gothic romance. This rich treasury of twenty-five stories shows him developing the laconic, understated style that would serve him so well in his later masterpieces, immersing readers in the richly realized fictional universe that has become a part of our literary landscape.
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