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0140021361

(ISBN-13: 9780140021363)

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180x110x12 mm

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6. Auflage

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Englisch

Pearls are a Nuisance

These three early stories take hairpin bends at the usual Chandler pace. There are corpses in cars, at desks, in morgues, under beds, on beds... neve, by any mistake, flower-beds. The volume also contains Chandler's famous little essay on 'Crime'.

3 Vintage Chandlers + The Simple Art of Murder

“Everything he writes about grabs your mind from the first sentence. It's a spare finished performance: full of life and character: leaps into action“ - Daily Telegraph

Contains the stories
- Pearls are a Nuisance,
- Finger Man,
- The King in Yellow und den Aufsatz
- The Simple Art of Murder

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About the author:

Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter.

In 1932, at age forty-four, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published just seven full novels during his lifetime (though an eighth in progress at his death was completed by Robert B. Parker). All but Playback have been realized into motion pictures, some several times. In the year before he died, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. He died on March 26, 1959, in La Jolla, California.

Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature, and is considered by many to be a founder, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and other Black Mask writers, of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. Chandler's Philip Marlowe, along with Hammett's Sam Spade, are considered by some to be synonymous with "private detective," both having been played on screen by Humphrey Bogart, whom many considered to be the quintessential Marlowe.

Some of Chandler's novels are considered to be important literary works, and three are often considered to be masterpieces: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Little Sister (1949), and The Long Goodbye (1953). The Long Goodbye is praised within an anthology of American crime stories as "arguably the first book since Hammett's The Glass Key, published more than twenty years earlier, to qualify as a serious and significant mainstream novel that just happened to possess elements of mystery".

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Quotes from Raymond Chandler:

"To say goodbye is to die a little." — Raymond Chandler (The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6))

"There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself." — Raymond Chandler (Long Goodbye)

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." — Raymond Chandler

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Reviews from readers:

"5 Stars. He writes so well, this Raymond Chandler. Such a joy to read. Sometimes the street slang can be confusing, as in this tale, but that's as it should be! It's light and enjoyable with some great characters. It first appeared in "Dime Detective" in 1939; I caught it's 48 pages in "The Simple Art of Murder" which first came out in 1950 and was reprinted in 1988. Walter Gage is our hero; I am not certain what his occupation is - surely private investigator but not stated. Throughout the story he seems to have extra cash when required and his mercurial girlfriend accuses him of being too rich. Yet he has the smarts of a good P.I. About the characters, there's Henry Eichelberger, the former chauffeur to Mrs. Penruddock. She's the older widow whose valuable pearls have gone missing, the ones Gage is retained to find. Eichelberger has never turned aside a quart of Old Plantation whiskey. Or several. Gage and he develop a type of friendship. Then there's Lou Gandesi, proprietor of a tavern on Spring Street, accused of a wave of dinner party holdups. We shouldn't forget Ellen Macintosh, Gage's tall girlfriend with honey-coloured hair. All I can say is, "Enjoy." (February 2021)" - Jack Heath
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Condition: Very good. Pages slightly darkened due to age. Slightly bumped cover edges.

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