Book description
Trouble is My Business is a collection of four riveting
novellas from Raymond Chandler.
In the first of the four cases in Trouble is My Business, LA
PI Philip Marlowe is offered a job that leaves a bad taste in the
mouth: smearing a girl who's 'got her hooks into a rich man's pup'.
Before too long Marlowe's up to his neck in corpses and cops and he's
taken pity on the girl. There's nothing like making trouble of your
business . . .
The four novellas collected here are quintessential Raymond
Chandler: slick, crystal-clear writing that pins the reader to the
seat and won't let go until the last page is turned.
Praise for Raymond Chandler:
'Chandler's prose flies off the pages like a burst from a Tommy gun.
Chandler was perhaps the finest exponent of the fledgling genre now
known as pulp fiction' Scottish Field
'One of the greatest crime writers, who set the standards others
still try to attain' Sunday Times
'Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner
. . . An original . . . A great artist' Boston Review
'Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and
America has never looked the same to us since' Paul Auster
Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and moved to England
with his family when he was twelve. He attended Dulwich College, Alma
Mater to some of the twentieth century's most renowned writers.
Returning to America in 1912, he settled in California, worked in a
number of jobs, and later married. It was during the Depression era
that he seriously turned his hand to writing and his first published
story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six
years later by his first novel. The Big Sleep introduced the world to
Philip Marlowe, the often imitated but never-bettered hard-boiled
private investigator. It is in Marlowe's long shadow that every
fictional detective must stand - and under the influence of Raymond
Chandler's addictive prose that every crime author must write.
