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Trouble Is My Business
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The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.
This collection by crime fiction master Raymond Chandler features four long stories in which private eye Philip 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.
This collection by crime fiction master Raymond Chandler features four long stories in which private eye Philip 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.
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“This collection of 4 short stories with Philip Marlowe as the hard boiled PI completes my reading of every Marlowe story and it’s been a really enjoyable experience. The writing style is always brilliant, the plots are usually very intricate and often a little hard to follow as Marlowe figures out just who the hell had been lying and what the truth is, whilst applying his own particular brand of morals to decide what the police need, or, more usually, don’t need to know. The police are recognised as having a crap job to do and are often split between being hard boiled thugs who’d happily beat a confession out of anyone, guilty or not, or pretty clever guys who would still happily hit you and hate private dicks showing them up, but think Marlowe is a good guy and mostly on the level. Mix in corrupt politicians, gangster bosses small and large, bent casinos, DAs looking to make a name and ensure re-election, not to mention any number of glamorous women either looking to make a fast buck, being fiercely independent or looking to escape their millionaire fathers and it’s always a heady mix.
Often it’s very hard to see how Marlowe ever makes any money as he’s so intent on only getting paid for results, and only taking cases he approves of, but maybe the Goldfish story here explains how he manages to be so noble, at least until his Poodle Springs marriage.
These 4 short stories are inevitably much less convoluted than the longer books and I obviously mixed the complexity of figuring out what was going on, which is the only reason to knock one star off the rating.”
About Raymond Chandler
RAYMOND THORNTON CHANDLER (1888 - 1959) was the master practitioner of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Although he was born in Chicago, Chandler spent most of his boyhood and youth in England where he attended Dulwich College and later worked as a freelance journalist for The Westminster Gazette and The Spectator. During World War I, Chandler served in France with the First Division of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, transferring later to the Royal Flying Corps (R. A. F.). In 1919 he returned to the United States, settling in California, where he eventually became director of a number of independent oil companies. The Depression put an end to his career, and in 1933, at the age of forty-five, he turned to writing fiction, publishing his first stories in Black Mask. Chandler’s detective stories often starred the brash but honorable Philip Marlowe (introduced in 1939 in his first novel, The Big Sleep) and were noted for their literate presentation and dead-on critical eye. Never a prolific writer, Chandler published only one collection of stories and seven novels in his lifetime. Some of Chandler’s novels, like The Big Sleep, were made into classic movies which helped define the film noir style. In the last year of his life he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. He died in La Jolla, California on March 26, 1959.
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