Raymond Chandler: Simple Art of Murder

From the Publisher:
Prefaced by the famous Atlantic Monthly essay of the same name, in which he argues the virtues of the hard-boiled detective novel, this collection, mostly drawn from stories he wrote for the pulps, demonstrates Chandler's imaginative, entertaining facility with the form.

"Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner... . An original... . A great artist." -- The Boston Book Review

Raymond Chandler was born in 1888 and published his first story in 1933 in the pulp magazine Black Mask. By the time he published his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939), featuring, as did all his major works, the iconic private eye Philip Marlowe, it was clear that he had not only mastered a genre but had set a standard to which others could only aspire. Chandler created a body of work that ranks with the best of twentieth-century literature. He died in 1959.

Raymond Chandler: Simple Art of Murder. Vintage Books, ISBN: 0394757653 (August, 1988), 377 p., $13.00.

Raymond Chandler: Simple Art of Murder (USA 1988)

From the Publisher:
The Simple Art of Murder contains Raymond Chandler's essay on the art of detective stories and a collection of eight classic Chandler mysteries.

"Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence." -- Ross Macdonald

Raymond Chandler: Simple Art of Murder. Vintage Books, ISBN: 0394757653 (August, 1988), 377 p., $6.95.