Rahina’s Reviews > Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels > Status Update

Finished the stories and will wait a while before going on to the novels. Always entertaining. Best stories: Red Wind, The King in Yellow, Trouble is My Business, Guns at Cyrano's, I'll Be Waiting and the Peter Wimsey send up Pearls Are A Nuisance. Only two out of the thirteen actively sucked so that's good.

He gets more mileage out of pearls than I would have believed possible. Can sketch a character's essence with sartorial details. Every empty room has a body in it (gets a little silly). Reading the stories in backwards chronological order is way more gratifying than trying to slog through the stilted action of Blackmailers don't Shoot.