Trouble Is My Business [edition unknown]
by Raymond Chandler
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Trouble is My Business is a collection of four riveting novellas from Raymond Chandler. In the first of the four cases LA PI Philip Marlowe is offered a job that leaves a bad taste in the mouth: smearing a girl who's 'got her hooks into a rich man's pup'. Before too long Marlowe's up to his neck in corpses and cops and he's taken pity on the girl. There's nothing like making trouble of your business . . . The four novellas collected here are quintessential Raymond Chandler: slick, show more crystal-clear writing that pins the reader to the seat and won't let go until the last page is turned. show lessTags
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Four short stories featuring private dick Philip Marlowe, written between 1934 and 1950.
Marlowe is hired to get a greedy beauty to unhook her talons from the son of a very wealthy man, is hired as security for a cagey gambler and his girl, and goes all the way to Washington looking for a guy who may or may not know about stolen pearls. In the last story, trouble finds Marlowe even when he's just relaxing with a drink.
I love Chandler's quick banter, the way characters throw paragraphs of slang around, yet understand each other perfectly. And boy, does Marlowe and everyone else guzzle hooch like there's no tomorrow.
Marlowe is hired to get a greedy beauty to unhook her talons from the son of a very wealthy man, is hired as security for a cagey gambler and his girl, and goes all the way to Washington looking for a guy who may or may not know about stolen pearls. In the last story, trouble finds Marlowe even when he's just relaxing with a drink.
I love Chandler's quick banter, the way characters throw paragraphs of slang around, yet understand each other perfectly. And boy, does Marlowe and everyone else guzzle hooch like there's no tomorrow.
Went back to Chandler for the 1st time since school. As I remembered the dry humour is unmatched and the drive relentless, with the dicks slugging out solutions more than detecting them, but at times the slang is now so obscure that the plot is difficult to follow.
Excellent collection of Chandlers' short stories. All of the same hardboiled sort, and the detectives have different names, but pretty much the same guy. The last few the main character is Marlowe. Beautiful stuff for the genre.
Same name as a previous bk listed by me here but w/ a larger collection inside - including "The Lady in the Lake" in short form. Who makes the decisions to publish a bk of the same name as a previous bk by the same author is a mystery to me.
Trouble Is My Business is a short story collection by author Raymond Chandler. The individual tales were originally published in the 1930s in various crime fiction magazines and were compiled in book form in 1950. The stories are categorized as “hard-boiled” mystery fiction.
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Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 23, 1888. Before becoming a professional writer in 1933, he worked as a reporter, an accountant, bookkeeper, and auditor. He wrote several novels featuring private detective Philip Marlowe including The Big Sleep, The High Window, The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, and The Long Goodbye. show more In addition to novels and short stories, he wrote screenplays. He won two academy awards, for Double Indemnity (1944) and The Blue Dahlia (1946). He died on March 26, 1959. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Trouble Is My Business [edition unknown]
- Original title
- Trouble Is My Business
- Original publication date
- 1988
- People/Characters
- Philip Marlowe; Anna Halsey; Marty Estel; Harriet Huntress; John D. Arbogast; Gerald Jeeter (show all 33); Frisky Lavon; George Hasterman; Maynard J. Tinnen; Frank Dorr; Bernie Ohls; Louis N. Harger; Tom Sneyd; Jim Dolan; Poke Andrews; Luis Cadena; Von Ballin; Kathy Horne; Sol Leander; Wally Sype; Peeler Mardo; Rush Madder; Carol Donovan; Dodge Willis; Lew Petrolle; Joseph Coates; Frank C. Barsaly; Lola Barsaly; Eugénie Kolchenko; Leon Valesanos; Al Tessilore; Waldo Ratigan; Sam Copernik
- Important places
- Los Angeles, California, USA; California, USA
- Related movies
- The Big Sleep (1946 | IMDb)
- First words
- Some literary antiquarian of a rather special type may one day think it worth while to run through the files of the pulp detective magazines which flourished during the late twenties and early thirties, and determine just how... (show all) and when and by what steps the popular mystery story shed its refined good manners and went native.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)They made little splashes and the seagulls rose off the water and swooped at the splashes.
- Original language
- English
- Disambiguation notice
- Please don't combine this work, which contains unknown editions of either the novella or the novella published with other stories. The novella and at least three different collections have been published with this title:
<... (show all)br>A collection first published in 1939 included five stories: "Trouble is My Business," "Red Wind," "I'll Be Waiting," "Goldfish," and "Guns at Cyrano's."
A collection first published in 1950 included four stories: "Trouble is My Business," "Finger Man," "Goldfish," and "Red Wind."
A more recent collection (perhaps from 2006) included twelve stories: "Killer in the Rain,' "The Man Who Liked Dogs," "The Curtain," "Try the Girl," "Mandarin's Jade," "Bay City Blues," "The Lady in the Lake," "No Crime in the Mountains," "Trouble is My Business," "Finger Man," "Goldfish," and "Red Wind."
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