Killer in the Rain & Other Stories

'When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand. This could get to be pretty silly, but somehow it didn't seem to matter...' - Raymond ChandlerFirst published in the Thirties in Black Mask, these eight stories see Chandler already master of his art. Killer in the Rain, The Curtain, Bay City Blues - all of them come charged with the authentic smell of fear that caused Elizabeth Bowen to acclaim Chandler as 'not just one more detective writer - he is a craftsman so brilliant, he has an imagination so wholly original, that no consideration of modern American literature ought, I think, to exclude him'.