> In the UK, there was a hardback Chandler short story
collection called
> *The Smell of Fear*. It contains all (or most) of the
short stories
> in *TSAM*, plus "The Pencil" (the last Marlowe short
story). The main
> difference are that in four of the stories ("Finger
Man," "Red Wind,"
> "Goldfish," and "Trouble Is My Business") the main
character is named
> Philip Marlowe in *TSAM* and is called by the
original pulp magazine
> names of either Caromody or John Dalmas in *The Smell
of Fear*.
The naming/renaming issue came a while ago, when we were
discussing 'Red
Wind'.
It was a bit jarring to find some contributors to the
discussion were
talking about 'Marlowe' while others were referring to
'Dalmas'. I
think -- though I may be misremembering -- that the
US/Canadian stories
had renamed the Dalmas character as Marlowe while UK editions
did not.
The point was also made that, whatever the character was
called, it was
always the same one: the point derives, I think, from Philip
Durham's
study, _Down These Mean Streets A Man Must Go_
ED
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