I think that's a logical assumption and very possibly
accurate, but I have no information to prove it. He wrote the
letter to Guinness in February 1959. (It is, in fact, his
last published letter.) In an October 1958 letter to Helga
Greene, he made reference to his plans to write "The Pencil."
Make whatever conclusions you wish from that. When he
actually wrote "the Pencil," I am not sure.
----- Original Message -----
From: JIM DOHERTY
Is there anything indicating that Chandler, as
I
thought, wrote "The Pencil" (posthumously
published in
the London DAILY MAIL as "Marlowe Takes on
the
Syndicate") after putting POODLE SPRINGS aside?
And
if so, and if, as he wrote to Guinness, he
thought
Linda "the wrong girl," did he, in your
opinion,
resurrect Ann because he thought her to be
the
"right," or at least a more right, girl?
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