For the record, and in case you were curious, here are the
contents of Raymond Chandler's COLLECTED STORIES (Everyman's
Library, 2002):
Blackmailers
Don't Shoot
Smart-Aleck
Kill
Finger
Man
* Killer in the Rain
Nevada
Gas
Spanish
Blood
Guns at
Cyrano's
* The Man Who Liked Dogs
Pickup on
Noon Street
Goldfish
* The Curtain
* Try the Girl
* Mandarin's Jade
Red
Wind
The King in
Yellow
* Bay City Blues
* The Lady in the Lake
Pearls are a
Nuisance
Trouble is My
Business
I'll Be
waiting
The Bronze
Door
* No Crime in the Mountains
Professor
Bingo's Snuff (1951)
The Pencil
(1959)
English
Summer (posthumously, 1976)
All but the last three were published between 1933-1941,
mostly in BLACK MASK and DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE. Asterisks
mark the ones he'd cannabilized and didn't allow to be
reprinted; you had to find a copy of KILLER IN THE RAIN
(Hamish Hamilton, 1964; Penguin, 1966 and on) to read them.
Now they're all there in one volume, with three other stories
that were really hard to find. The recent Library of America
two-volume set only collects the easy-to-find short stories.
(Left uncollected were some early poetry and some other
things.)
Just to refresh your memory, here's the first paragraph of
"Red Wind:"
| There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of
those hot
| dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes
and curl your
| hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On
nights like that
| every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel
the edge of
| the carving knife and study their husband's necks. Anything
can happen.
| You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail
lounge
And some dialogue a page later, when Marlowe's talking to the
young bartender who'd given him the full glass:
| The kid said: "I don't like drunks in the first place and
in the
| second place I don't like them getting drunk in here, and
in the third
| place I don't like them in the first place."
| "Warner Brothers could use that," I said.
| "They did."
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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