My copy of "Trouble Is My Business" ( Ballantine 1977 ) has Marlowe as the character--not John Dalmas. Just to clarify -- the story under discussion is the short that begins with the sentence- "There was a desert wind blowing that night." Yes or No? Tim Handley - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca