Trouble is My Business
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Trouble is My Business" by Raymond Chandler. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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This is a collection of 5 short stories from Raymond Chandler. It is identified as a part of the Philip Marlowe series, and other reviews identify the stories as all being about Marlowe. My copy however (1950 Penguin) contains a note which says “The stories in this volume first appeared in various magazines between 1933 and 1939...” and I suspect the characters names in my edition are the original, and have subsequently been republished as Marlowe.
Trouble is my Business (John Dalmas) 5/5
Red Wind (John Dalmas) 4/5
I'll be Waiting (Tony Reseck) 3/5
Goldfish (Carmady) 4.5/5
Guns at Cyrano's (Ted Malvern) 4/5
I am not a big fan of plot outlining short stories - it doesn't leave much out there.
Suffice it to say they are in Chandler's style. Tough guy private detectives, who make the usual mistakes, but come out all right in the end, typically surrounded with bodies! They are the hard-boiled detectives in the mold of Marlowe, whatever name is used.
Excellent. Overall 4 stars+
