> My copy of "Trouble Is My Business" ( Ballantine 1977 ) has Marlowe > as the > character--not John Dalmas. Yes, but for book publication, Chandler changed the names of his heroes. As far as I know, Phillip Marlowe never appeared in any of the old pulp stories ("The Pencil," a posthumously published story, is the only exception that I know of); the protaganists were Mallory, Carmady, John Dalmas or others. - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca