THE SIMPLE ART OF MURDER - INSCRIBED TO JUANITA MESSICK

by Raymond Chandler

$15,000 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950. First Edition. A significant collection, containing 12 of Chandler's short stories which first appeared in the pages of Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, The Saturday Evening Post, and The Saturday Review of Literature. Includes Chandler's oft-quoted and much-anthologized essay The Simple Art of Murder, which first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly 1944 . Messick

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