Killer in the Rain

<p><b>From the creased pages of 1930s pulp magazines <i>Black Mask</i> and <i>Dime Detective</i> come eight of Raymond Chandler's finest short stories: <br></b><br><b>KILLER IN THE RAIN, THE MAN WHO LIKED DOGS, THE CURTAIN, TRY THE GIRL, MANDARIN'S JADE, BAY CITY BLUES, THE LADY IN THE LAKE and NO CRIME IN THE MOUNTAINS<br></b><br>Set against a Southern Californian backdrop, the stories are rich with suspense, violence and tragedy, and each comes laced with booze, bullets and a detective with an eye for a damsel in distress and an even keener eye for justice . . . <p>Readers will also recognize episodes, characters and flashbacks from the Marlowe novels that made Chandler the undisputed master of his genre. <p>'Anything he writes about grips the mind from the first sentence. It is a spare, finished performance: full of life and character: as tense as a tiger, springing into action' <i>Daily Telegraph<br></i><br>'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' <i>Sunday Times</i> <p>'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess</p>