"The High Window" by Raymond Chandler

The first year after I had graduated college, I got a two-volume collection of Raymond Chandler's complete works out of the library and inhaled them.  It was a wonderful couple of weeks.  I'd read The Big Sleep back in high school, and The Lady in the Lake one summer between college years, so I knew I liked his writing style.  But it wasn't until that post-college binge that I realized I'd found my favorite author.

The only trouble was, I read all his novels and...