George,
Re your comment below:
> Needless to say, this type of title
[variations
> of "Trouble Is My Business"] is often
> parodied.
> I wonder who wrote the first one?
I won't say categorically that Chandler's is the earliest,
but it's certainly the earliest I'm aware of.
The Drum series adopted this title pattern at roughly the
time that a paperback edition of the Marlowe stories from THE
SIMPLE ART OF MURDER was released under the title TROUBLE IS
MY BUSINESS. I've always assumed (perhaps erroneously) that
the Drum title pattern was adopted deliberately to evoke
Chandler, as was Milton Lesser's "Marlowe" pseudonym (which
he eventually made his legal name).
JIM DOHERTY
__________________________________________________ Do You
Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com
-- # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 21 May 2002 EDT