Simple Art of Murder

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Author: Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888-1959) with signed letter to his agent Year: 1950 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Place: Boston Description: x+533 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with brown lettering to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition. With signed letter laid in. signed "Ray, " one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, December 31, 1947. Letter to "Swanie," his literary agent H. N. Swanson, in full: "David Tyler tells me he wrote to your office some time back saying he probably would not be my business manager after the end of the year 1947. He had some idea of taking a consular post with the British government (during the war he was Consular Security Officer at San Pedro), but this has fallen through due to great retrenchment in the British Foreign Service and on account of the dollar shortage. So he will be going on with me exactly as before. I expect to be in Los Angeles next Monday and believe I have to be in court Tuesday morning. After that I will go and see Joe. Happy New Year!" Next to his signature, Chandler writes in his own hand: "Davis says 'Monday.'" The Simple Art of Murder is hard-boiled detective fiction author Raymond Chandler's critical essay, a magazine article, and his collection of short stories. The essay was first published in The Atlantic Monthly in December 1944. The magazine article appeared in the Saturday Review of Literature , April 15, 1950. The article, somewhat rewr

• Binding: Hardcover

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