Trouble Is My Business
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780345024503 (0345024508)
ASIN: 345224507
Publish date: February 1972
Publisher: Ballentine Books, Inc
Pages no: 244
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
American,
Mystery,
Detective,
Crime,
Noir,
Pulp,
Short Stories,
Hard Boiled
We have four novelettes or short novellas plus an rather interesting introduction by Raymond Chandler himself, musing on the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction, which thrived in the 20s through 50s in pulp magazines. These four stories themselves had appeared previously in one of the pulps. Ah.....
A collection of four short stories (which I love by the way) I just couldn't get into these except maybe one. This was due probably more my lack of concentration rather than the story or writing because Chandler's as good as ever. I shouldn't read when I have other stuff on my mind so I'm putting ...