[SamAdams76]

Speaking of your book club, let me remind everybody that your reading assignment for this month is the short stories of Raymond Chandler. I ordered the "Everyman's Library" collection of all his short stories and should get it sometime this week. It was only $19.25 - not a bad value at all for 1,344 pages! I won't have time obviously to read the entire book before our discussion but I'll at least read the two stories you assigned and a couple of the others.

[PJ-Comix]

Nobody handles the American idiom like Raymond Chandler. Why? Because Chandler approached it like a foreign language. He was American but raised in Britain and had a British accent. When he returned to the States, he was fascinated by the way Americans spoke. He didn't take it for granted and it shows in his works.