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adam_mcphee 's review for:
Trouble Is My Business
by Raymond Chandler
Four stories. Trouble Is My Business and Finger Man are both top notch hardboiled pulp fiction. Goldfish is about pearls and goldfish, and it comes off a little Dick Tracey-ish, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's a nice switch in tone for Chandler.
The final story, Red Wind, knocked my socks off. The plot is more intricate, and every piece of the puzzle is building on the last, to the point that a couple of times I had to stop and check on what I'd read previously. The hardboiled lines hit a bit harder, too. But it's more than just a detective story. It rises above it's genre to become literature. In fact, the reason I picked up the book is because Eric Williams, author of Toadstones, tweeted that: Raymond Chandler's "Red Wind" is legitimately one of the greatest short stories of the 20th c, both technically and artistically. dialog, pacing, description, story, all perfect, and the whole thing culminates in a genuinely (and surprisingly) moving last couple of paragraphs. Couldn't have said it better myself.
Some of my favourite hardboiled lines threaded here.
The final story, Red Wind, knocked my socks off. The plot is more intricate, and every piece of the puzzle is building on the last, to the point that a couple of times I had to stop and check on what I'd read previously. The hardboiled lines hit a bit harder, too. But it's more than just a detective story. It rises above it's genre to become literature. In fact, the reason I picked up the book is because Eric Williams, author of Toadstones, tweeted that: Raymond Chandler's "Red Wind" is legitimately one of the greatest short stories of the 20th c, both technically and artistically. dialog, pacing, description, story, all perfect, and the whole thing culminates in a genuinely (and surprisingly) moving last couple of paragraphs. Couldn't have said it better myself.
Some of my favourite hardboiled lines threaded here.