![]() ![]() This is much more explicitly a whodunit than most of the longer Philip Marlowe books and even has an Agatha Christie-esque line-up of suspects at its climax, but all of the classic Raymond Chandler elements are still present and correct. From there, the bodies just keep piling up – but who’s responsible? Chandler cheekily waves suspects and red herrings in your face, so the reader – as well as Marlowe – hit many false leads before the final pay-off. ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s no sooner started following this potential gold-digger before he stumbled across the first murder. This 1939 story sees world-weary private eye Philip Marlowe hired to scare away a disreputable woman from the adopted son of a wealthy businessman. The first of the four stories in this collection is Trouble is my Business, from which it gets its name. I say short stories, they’re probably more properly defined as ‘novellas’, but I detest using that word, so to me they’ll always be – fairly long – short stories. It’s not all over for Philip Marlowe however, as I still had the short story collection Trouble is my Business to read. Sadly for this blog, I completed the last full length novel Playback shortly before starting to write reviews for Hot Bullets. A while ago I started making my way through Raymond Chandler’s excellent Philip Marlowe novels in order. ![]()
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