Trouble is My Business [Hardcover]

Raymond CHANDLER (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Pocket Book (1957)
• ASIN: B001BKKCTC
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)

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59 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazon user be cautioned, September 18, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Trouble Is My Business (Paperback)

CAUTION: The edition shipped by Amazon is not the
642-page, twelve-story edition of this title advertised here and not the one which the online review discusses. For some bizarre reason, and sometime between 1988 and now, Vintage has edited out eight of the most important stories and left the reader with only four, but kept the same title: Trouble is My Business. An outrage, certainly. Don't be fooled by the bibliographic information given by Amazon: the book you receive will have only 214 pages and contain only four stories!

49 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Where are the first 8 stories?, October 11, 2001

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J. Ennis "countjason" (Dayton, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trouble Is My Business (Paperback)

I bought a dog-eared copy of this collection ("Trouble is My Business") at a book sale for $1.50 a year ago. The copy I have is thick with 12 stories. I bought this copy of "Trouble is my Business" to have a better copy, but was disappointed to discover that it had been whittled down to only the final four Marlowe stories. My question is, what the hell happened to the first 8 and why is Amazon.com still describing this as a collection of 12 when there are merely four? That's not jake, fellas.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best of Raymond Chandler, March 20, 1998

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burglar "burglar" (Newport Beach, Ca. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trouble Is My Business (Paperback)

There are those who feel that The Big Sleep or Farewell My Lovely are Chandler's best work, but I disagree. As fine as they are, they were, after all, taken from his previously published short stories. Chandler was not a novelist, really. He was writer of scenes. He could spend paragraphs describing a room, or a person, or an open field, for that matter, and leave you begging for more. These four stories are the best he had to offer. Red Wind gets the most attention, usually, thanks to the classic opening paragraph, but my personal favorite is Goldfish. The character of Carol Donovan is the most exquisitely drawn hard-boiled female since Brigit O'Shaughnessy, and the finale is as good as the finale of Shane.