Luca,
Re your comment below:
> The Lady in the Lake [working titles: Law Is
Where
> You Buy It; The Girl
> from Brunette's; Goldfish; The Golden Anklet;
Deep
> in Dark Waters]: Bay
> City Blues, The Lady in the Lake, No Crime in
the
> Mountains
I know that Durham regarded "No Crime in the Mountains" as
one of the "cannibalized" stories because Chandler failed to
include it in his
"official" short story collection THE SIMPLE ART OF MURDER.
However, Chandler didn't exclude it for this reason.
According to letter he wrote when he was deciding what to
include in the collection, he excluded it because he thought
the plotline (wartime espionage by the Axis powers) dated it,
and he didn't want to re-write it into a more contemprary
Cold War theme. Moreover, the only elements that "No Crime"
has in common with LADY are the small-town setting and the
colorful rural cop character, and both of these elements were
already present in the short story version of "Lady," so
there was no need for Chandler to poach them from "No
Crime."
> The High Window [working title: The
Brasher
> Doubloon]: Pearls Are a
> Nuisance
That's one I never heard. Since the short story is sort of a
take-off on the S.S. Van Dine style of writing, it never
occurred to me that it was the basis of WINDOW. Since it made
the cut into SIMPLE ART, apparently Chandler didn't regard it
as "cannibilzed," either.
> Zone of Twilight [original title of what
later
> became Playback]: Guns at
> Cyrano's, Nevada Gas
I'd always heard that PLAYBACK was a novelization of an
unproduced movie script, not an expansion of two short
stories. It's been awhile since I read the stories, but I
don't recall any similarities between them and PLAYBACK
jumping out at me. Does anyone who's read them more recently
have any comments?
JIM DOHERTY
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