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Trouble Is My Business
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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Summary
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I need a man good-looking enough to pick up a dame who has a sense of class, but he's got to be tough enough to swap punches with a power shovel.
In the first of the four cases in Trouble Is My Business, Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is offered a job that leaves a bad taste in the mouth: smearing a girl who's 'got her hooks into a rich man's pup'. Before too long Marlowe's up to his neck in corpses and cops and he's taken pity on the girl. There's nothing like making trouble out of your business....
The four novellas collected here are quintessential Raymond Chandler.
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Critic reviews
"Chandler's prose flies off the pages like a burst from a Tommy gun. Chandler was perhaps the finest exponent of the fledgling genre now known as pulp fiction." (Scottish Field)
"One of the greatest crime writers, who set the standards others still try to attain." (Sunday Times)
"Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since." (Paul Auster)
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- Jeffrey Slater
- 29-06-21
Not Philip Marlow, but OK.
These are not Philip Marlowe stories. The main detectives in these stories were originally various others (e. g. in "Trouble is my business" itself the PI is John Dalmas). The original characters have all been renamed in an effort to boost sales. Anyone who has read the (real) Philip Marlowe books will notice fairly quickly that none (except the last) of the people named Philip Marlowe in the stories is the real Philip Marlowe. The change was made by the publisher long after Raymond Chandler was dead. However, apart from that they are written by Raymond Chandler, they're not his best but as I said, OK.
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- La Chute
- 18-10-21
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I enjoyed the stories and the reading of them. My whinge is about the story titles. Chapter numbers in place of the story titles is a poor show. The reader does announce the title in the introduction to each story but given the stories are split into chapters the whole thing is confusing. This seems to be a feature of all the short story collections in Audible. Surely it isn't too difficult to add the titles?
And while I'm on my soap box...many books have prologues or introductions to which Audible allocates the first chapter number. This means the actual chapters are out of sequence with the audible sequence of chapters. Again it doesn't seem difficult to resolve this
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- Paul Williams
- 01-04-22
Classic Marlowe
Not sure why one reviewer thinks this audio books stories are not Phillip Marlowe stories as they are all told with Marlowe as the narrator and concern cases he solved as you would expect in any Chandler Marlowe book. The book tells 4 Marlowe cases that were from magazine stories that Chandlers wrote and are classic Chandler stories so if you like Marlowe you will enjoy this book. Just felt I should clear this up as the review saying these were not Marlowe stories nearly stopped me buying the book. Enjoy.
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