Don't know when the stories were retrofitted, but all theHBO versions (with Powers Booth) were Marlowes. This may also have been the case with Ross Macdonald's short stories. His first "Find the Woman", written in 1946 with a PI named "Rogers" becomes transmorgorified in the collections as a Lew Archer story. Frederick Zackel On Sat, 17 May 1997, Joshua B Lukin wrote: > I remember having read somewhere that Chandler originally gave the > detectives of his novellas other names, then after the success of his > novels retrofitted "Marlowe" into the novellas for the collected editions. > Does anyone know whether that's the case for "Red Wind"--i.e. did the > original magazine version have a different detective? > --josh > > - > # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" > # to majordomo@icomm.ca > - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca