$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books / ISBN:9780140109009
Killer In The Rain
First published in the Thirties in Black Mask, these
eight stories see Chandler already master of his art. Killer in
the Rain, The Curtain, Bay City Blues – all of
them come charged with the authentic smell of fear that caused
Elizabeth Bowen to acclaim Chandler as 'not just one more detective
writer – he is a craftsman so brilliant, he has an imagination so
wholly original, that no consideration of modern American
literature ought, I think, to exclude him'.
'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.'
Daily Telegraph
'Chandler is a serious writer, an original stylist.'
Anthony Burgess
