The opening scene of Raymond Chandler’s story Trouble is My Business tells you a lot in a very few words about Chandler’s “private eye,” Phillip Marlowe. Marlow is talking to a woman who runs a detective agency, a big one with several agents. But none of her people is suitable for the job she has. • Read More »
Tags: Dashiell Hammett, detective fiction, detective stories, hard-boiled, Jame Cain, Phillip Marlowe, private detective, private eye, Raymond Chandler, Sam Spade, Trouble is My Business