Trouble is My Business x 3

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]

2016 Penguin UK reissue

[updated 3/3/26]

February 1960 issue

February 1960, first US appearance of Chandler’s “Wrong Pigeon”, published posthumously. First publication of the full text. An abridged version had been serialized in the Perth Daily News during May, 1959 as “Marlowe Takes on the Syndicate”. In September of 1965, it was published in Argosy magazine with the title “The Pencil”. It would be published again with that title in the 1988 Doubleday hardcover Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe: A Centennial Celebration

The ‘Mob’ had a grudge against Marlowe…and thy were out to kill two pigeons with one stone.

Farewell, My Lovely x 21

1940 Knopf hardcover

1940 Hammish Hamilton UK first edition

1943 Pocket reissue – cover art by H. L. Hoffman

1944 World Press tie-in

1964 Pocket reissue, 14th printing – cover art by Harvey Kidder (owner’s copy)

cover art by James Neil Boyle

1951 Pocket reissue, 10th print – cover art by Paul Kresse (owner’s copy)

1950 Penguin UK reissue, 3rd print

1966 Penguin reissue – cover design by Bob Brooks

1973 Penguin reissue – cover design by James Tormey

1973 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)

1976 Vintage reissue – cover art by Richard Waldrep (owner’s copy)

1976 Ballantine movie tie-in

1976 Penguin movie tie-in

1988 Penguin reissue

1988 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

1994 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

2002 Penguin UK reissue

2009 Penguin Classics UK reissue

2010 Vintage reissue

2011 Penguin UK reissue

[updated 3/3/26, 3/8/26]

United Artists, 1973

The Long Goodbye (United Artists, 1973). Very Fine+ on Linen. International One Sheet (27″ X 41″). Starring Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson, David Arkin, Jim Bouton, Warren Berlinger, Rutanya Alda, David Carradine, Danny Goldman, Carl Gottlieb, George Wyner, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Directed by Robert Altman.

[Vic Fair artwork]