Jim wrote:
"I could be wrong, and paperback gurus like Bill may be able
to confirm or deny this, but I believe that Ballantine
divided TSAM into three different volumes. TROUBLE IS MY
BUSINESS . . . PICKUP ON NOON STREET .
. . THE SIMPLE ART OF MURDER collected the remaining stories
plus the TSAM essay. If memory serves, it seems to me that
the intro from the hardback edition of TSAM, from which the
"darkness more than night" phrase is derived, was included in
the Ballantine edition of either TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS or
PICKUP ON NOON STREET."
I just checked my Ballantine paperbacks of Chandler (where I
first read him), and the Intro opens Trouble Is My Business.
The Intro is also in the second volume of The Library of
America's Chandler collection, Later Novels and Other
Writings. The other essays in the book are The Simple Art of
Murder (the 1946 version from Haycraft's Art of the Mystery
Novel
-- notes say the version in the 1950 Simple Art of Murder
anthology is yet another revision of the original, 1944,
Atlantic article that incorporates only a few of the
revisions for Haycraft), Writers in Hollywood (also from
Atlantic), Twelve Notes on the Mystery Story and Notes and
English and American Style (both from his notebooks).
Mark
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