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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Vintage Books
Publication date
August 1, 1988
Pages
377
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reissue
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780394757650
ISBN-10
0394757653
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.50 by 8 in.
Weight
0.70 lbs.
Original list price
$14.95
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Summary
An essay on detective fiction and the hard-boiled whodunit accompanies eight mystery stories about a politician's murder, a hotel detective, missing pearls, and gangsters. Reissue.
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Paperback
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Reissue edition from Vintage Books (August 1, 1988)
9780394757650 | details & prices | 377 pages | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $14.95
About: An essay on detective fiction accompanies eight stories about a politician's murder, a hotel detective, missing pearls, and gangsters
About: An essay on detective fiction accompanies eight stories about a politician's murder, a hotel detective, missing pearls, and gangsters
Reissue edition from Ballantine Books (December 1, 1984)
9780345349378 | details & prices | List price $3.95
About: In The Simple Art of Murder, which was prefaced by the famous Atlantic Monthly essay of the same name, noir master Raymond Chandler argues the virtues of the hard-boiled detective novel, and this collection, mostly drawn from stories he wrote for the pulps, demonstrates Chandler's imaginative, entertaining facility with the form.
About: In The Simple Art of Murder, which was prefaced by the famous Atlantic Monthly essay of the same name, noir master Raymond Chandler argues the virtues of the hard-boiled detective novel, and this collection, mostly drawn from stories he wrote for the pulps, demonstrates Chandler's imaginative, entertaining facility with the form.
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