Raymond Chandler: Killer in the Rain

From the Publisher:
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 MOUNTAIN

It was in the pulp detective magazines of the 1930s that Raymond Chandler's definitive take on the hard-boiled detective story first appeared. Here then, from the pages of the Black Mask and Dime Detective Magazine, are eight of his finest stories. Sharper than a hoodlum's switchblade, more exciting than an unexpected red-head and stronger than a double shot of whiskey, they are packed full of the punchy poetry and laconic wit that makes Chandler the undisputed master of his genre.

Raymond Chandler: Killer in the Rain. Introduction by Peter Robinson. Penguin Books, ISBN: 0140109005 (January, 1992), 432 p., £8.99