Killer in the rain
About this book
It was in the pulp detective magazines of the 1930s that Raymond Chandler's definitive take on the hard-boiled detective story first appeared. Here then, from the well-thumbed pages of `Black Mask' and `Dime Detective Magazine', are eight of his finest stories including `The Man Who Liked Dogs', `The Lady in the Lake' and `Bay City Blues'. Sharper than a hoodlum's switchblade, more exciting than an unexpected red-head and stronger than a double shot of whisky, they are packed full of the punchy poetry and laconic wit that makes Chandler the undisputed master of his genre.
Subjects
- california, fiction
- detective and mystery stories
- english short stories
- fiction
- fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled
- los angeles (calif.), fiction
- marlowe, philip (fictitious character), fiction
- mystery
- private investigators, fiction
- short stories, english