The Simple Art of Murder (Philip Marlowe) by Raymond Chandler

The murder novel has also a depressing way of minding its own business, solving its own problems and answering its own questions. There is nothing left to discuss, except whether it was well enough written to be good fiction, and the people who make up the half-million sales wouldn't know that anyway. Good specimens of the art are much rarer than good serious novels. Second-rate items outlast most of the high-velocity fiction, and a great many that should never have been born simply refuse to die at all. They are as durable as the statues in public parks and just about as dull. It is the ladies and gentlemen of what Mr. Howard Haycraft(in his book "Murder for Pleasure") calls the Golden Age of detective fiction that really get me down. This age is not remote. For Mr. Haycraft's purpose it starts after the First World War and lasts up to about 1930.

The Simple Art of Murder is hard-boiled detective fiction author Raymond Chandler's critical essay, a magazine article, and his collection of short stories. The essay was first published in The Atlantic Monthly in December 1944.

Contains Chandler's essay on the art of detective stories and a collection of 8 classic Chandler mysteries. His witty one-liners of Philip Marlowe are great and make this character come alive, but his is the only example where Chandler's humor works. None of the story is boring or bad however. The author really raised the standard of the genre so high in the later works that his own early writings look pale in comparison. The sense i got from these stories, is that Chandler was tr The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler. This book is a series of short stories, written in the 1930's and 40's, prefaced by an essay he wrote on writing crime fiction and gives the book its title. I've always been a fan of Chandler's "Phillip Marlowe" and of Dashiell Hammet's "Thin Ma.

Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Raymond Chandler’s first three novels, published here in one volume, established his reputation as an unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction. The Big Sleep, Chandler’s first novel, introduces Philip Marlowe, Hardboiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories. by Bill Pronzini · Jack Adrian · Dashiell Hammett · Raymond Chandler · Chester Himes · Norbert Davis · John D. MacDonald · Benjamin Appel · Elmore Leonard · Jonathan Craig · David Goodis · Ross Macdonald · . Burnett · Mickey Spillane · Gil Brewer · Leigh Brackett · Helen Nielsen · Evan Hunter.

Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. Age does not wither Chandler’s prose. He wrote like an angel.

Highlights of the collection include "The Simple Art of Murder," an essay by the author on the nature of mystery-writing, and the haunting "I'll Be Waiting," in which a lonely hotel detective tries to help a beautiful guest and ends up paying a dearer price than he could ever have imagined. Anyone looking for a fresh perspective on one of mystery's best writers should pick up "The Simple Art Of Murder.

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Chapter 4 focuses on Raymond Chandler and his farewell Philip Marlowe novel Playback. Even as it playfully dishes out familiar genre formulas and multiple playbacks of playbacks of playbacks, it bids an ironic farewell to the entire hardboiled tradition, self-reflexively deconstructing itself and the entire genre. Do you want to read the rest of this chapter? Request full-text.

The Simple Art of Murder. Prefaced by the famous Atlantic Monthly 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. This is the Code of the Private Eye as defined by Raymond Chandler in his 1944 essay 'The Simple Act of Murder. Such a man was Philip Marlowe, private eye, an educated, heroic, streetwise, rugged individualist and the hero of Chandler's first novel, The Big Sleep. These stories are where Chandler honed his art and developed his uniquely vivid underworld, peopled with good cops and bad cops, informers and extortionists, lethally predatory blondes and redheads, and crime, sex, gambling, and alcohol in abundance.