On Sat, 17 May 1997, Joshua B Lukin <jblukin@acsu.buffalo.edu> 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? I don't know about this renaming of characters at all---but without wanting to pre-empt the 'Red Wind' discussion that's still a week away---the name of the character in 'Red Wind' is John Dalmas (that, btw, is the copy of 'Red Wind' included in the collection _Trouble is my Business_). Eddie Duggan - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca