Trouble Is My Business
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (721 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1597770612 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 401 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. His full canon of novels and short stories is reprinted in trade paper featuring uniform covers in Black Lizard's signature style. . A handsome set for a reasonable price. From Library Journal Chandler is not only the best writer of hardboiled PI stories, he's one of the 20th century's top scribes, period
In the four long stories in this collection, Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold digger, runs afoul of crooked politicos, gets a line on some stolen jewels with a reward attached, and stumbles across a murder victim who may have been an extortionist.
Trouble is a Must Buy Raymond Chandler can write. In "Trouble" he described a fat, well dressed woman as having eyes like shoe buttons and skin like wet bird suet. That;s why he made a living writing gritty detective novels. The first paragraph of "Trouble" is worth the price of the book. Chandler's writing is dar, fast-paced, and full of surprises. For example, the "pretty girl" in "Trouble" might be petite and fetching, but she is as dangerous and destructive a. Booze and Lip Donald F. Kaminski I've always enjoyed Raymond Chandler and some of his stories are better than others. This particular book is a collection of four short stories about Philip Marlowe. What is phenomenal about the stories is the use of slang. I thought I was up on all the usage for the period, but this just blew me away. The stories are fast paced simply because Chandler had to compress plots that otherwise would have stretched out into novel length. The other. Reading Chandler is like eating the best cake of your life - utterly delicious Michele Nachum Raymond Chandler is my favorite writer of all time. His stories are interesting, his hero is a bit too good to be true -- but his descriptions and the underlying human feelings that lie beneath the tough exterior of our detective Phillip Marlowe is excellent. There is one scene that gets me in this anthology of short stories: Marlowe is being held up at gun point by a bad guy and Marlowe says, "I wasn't scared. I was paralyzed." That is the