Trouble is My Business x 2

June 1973 Ballantine reissue

cover art by Tom Adams

1977 Ballantine mass market, 3rd printing

includes:

introduction by Raymond Chandler, originally from The Simple Art of Murder (Houghton Mifflin, 1950)

“Trouble is My Business” (Dime Detective Magazine, Aug. 1939)

“Finger Man” (Black Mask Magazine, Oct. 1934)

“Goldfish” (Black Mask Magazine, June 1936)

“Red Wind” (Dime Detective Magazine, Jan. 1938)

cover art by Whistlin’ Dixie

August 25, 2013

[covers from owner’s own copies]