Killer in the Rain av Raymond Chandler

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<p><b>From the creased pages of 1930s pulp magazines <i>Black Mask</i> and <i>Dime Detective</i> come eight of Raymond Chandler''s finest short stories:<br></b><br><b>KILLER IN THE RAIN, THE MAN WHO LIKED DOGS, THE CURTAIN, TRY THE GIRL, MANDARIN''S JADE, BAY CITY BLUES, THE LADY IN THE LAKE and NO CRIME IN THE MOUNTAINS<br></b><br>Set against a Southern Californian backdrop, the stories are rich with suspense, violence and tragedy, and each comes laced with booze, bullets and a detective with an eye for a damsel in distress and an even keener eye for justice . . .<br><br>Readers will also recognize episodes, characters and flashbacks from the Marlowe novels that made Chandler the undisputed master of his genre.<br><br>''Anything he writes about grips the mind from the first sentence. It is a spare, finished performance: full of life and character: as tense as a tiger, springing into action'' <i>Daily Telegraph<br></i><br>''One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others st