false 2051 11 Prefaced by the famous <i>Atlantic Monthly</i> 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. 1165594 1977 The Simple Art of Murder (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) total:514|5:146|4:218|3:138|2:12|1:0| 514 2040 718 32 3 0 false false Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 08:21:57 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 13:34:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat May 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 14:24:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 07:26:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 true false Mon Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 31 17:35:37 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 08 21:58:46 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 22:03:20 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 21:31:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Mar 17 18:18:55 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 17 18:26:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 10:05:04 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 10:05:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 17 10:36:49 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 10:37:10 -0800 2008
However, the actual stories are brilliant. They're as twisty and polished as his novels...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 31 13:49:24 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 31 19:51:16 -0700 2007
Now skip to the final two pages where he transcends the limits of the genre, gives a soul and a cause to the hard-boiled hero, ratchets up the heat and spontaneously catches...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Sep 18 10:28:21 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 18 10:28:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jun 13 11:03:38 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 15 07:19:10 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 17 16:28:33 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 16:29:07 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Oct 20 16:09:04 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 16:09:46 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988 Thu Jul 23 10:03:56 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 10:04:40 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 09 14:43:45 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 14:44:02 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Aug 22 08:26:52 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 08:30:15 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri May 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 11:57:21 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 13:59:34 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Jan 18 11:26:56 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 18 12:00:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 12:24:43 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 08:47:54 -0800 2008 noir fiction and film noir, and Raymond Chandler is the best of them all. This is a collection of short stories, led into by an essay on where so many writers before him went wrong. Murder isn't a flowery subject, and people aren't all genteel. His stories look at the rougher underside of ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 06 09:28:15 -0800 2008 Fri Jun 12 11:25:27 -0700 2009 Raymond Chandler. I was excited to see the streets Philip Marlowe drifts along, in the romantically dirty city of Los Angeles. The city was not like what I had expected, yet the Marlowe's LA and mine meet at some corners in downtown sometimes and...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Sun Jun 17 10:34:13 -0700 2007 Thu Jan 31 20:35:46 -0800 2008 more...]]>