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Publisher: Random House Inc
Published: Dec 1969
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Retail Price: $17.00
Pages: 377
Prefaced by the famous Atlantic Monthly essay of the same name, in which he argues the virtues of the hard-boiled detective novel, this collection mostly drawn from stories he wrote for the pulps demonstrates Chandler's imaginative, entertaining facility with the form.