&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 & cops & 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 slick crystal-clear writing that pins the reader to the seat & won&t let go until the last page is turned & Age does not wither Chandler&s prose& Literary Review& 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& Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf not even Faulkner An original A great artist& Boston Review& Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America & America has never looked the same to us since& Paul Auster