Pearls Are A Nuisance Author:Raymond Chandler 3 vintage Chandlers (Pearls Are A Nuisance, Finger Man, The King in Yellow) & The Simple Art of Murder.
The 3 early stories take hairpin bends at the usual Chandler pace. There are corpses in cars, at desks, in morgues, under beds, on beds... never, by any mistake, flower-beds. The volume also contains Chandler's famous little essay on "Crime".