The Simple Art of Murder

The Simple Art of Murder
ISBN-10
1400030226
ISBN-13
9781400030224
Category
Fiction
Pages
384
Language
English
Published
2002-06-11
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Author
Raymond Chandler

Description

In The Simple Art of Murder, which was prefaced by the famous Atlantic Monthly essay of the same name, noir master Raymond Chandler argues the virtues of the hard-boiled detective novel, and this collection, mostly drawn from stories he wrote for the pulps, demonstrates Chandler's imaginative, entertaining facility with the form. Included are the classic stories "Spanish Blood," Pearls Are a Nuisance," and "Guns at Cyrano's," among others.

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