Tag: ballantine paperback

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]

The Simple Art of Murder

1977 Ballantine mass market, 3rd print

“The Simple Art of Murder” (Atlantic Monthly, Dec 1944)

“Spanish Blood” (Black Mask Magazine, Nov 1935)

“I’ll Be Waiting” (Saturday Evening Post, Dec 1939)

“The King in Yellow” (Dime Detective Magazine, Mar 1938)

“Pearls are a Nuisance” (Dime Detective Magazine, April 1939)

cover art by Whistlin’ Dixie