Description

It had been within the pulp detective magazines of the 1930s that Raymond Chandleris definitive undertake the hard boiled detective tale first appeared. Here then, in the well-thumbed pages of "Dime Detective Magazine" and "Black Mask", are eight of his best tales including "The Person Who Liked Dogs", "The Woman in the Lake" and "Bay City Blues". Clearer than a hoodlumis switchblade, more thrilling than an urgent red-mind and tougher than a double-shot of whisky, they're crammed saturated in the laconic humor and composition which makes Tempe the indisputable master of his style.