Trouble Is My Business

4 classic Phillip Marlowe stories. Excellent audiobook production. Noir at its finest.

This is a collection of 5 short stories from Raymond Chandler. It is identified as a part of the Philip Marlowe series, and other reviews identify the stories as all being about Marlowe. My copy however (1950 Penguin) contains a note which says “The stories in this volume first appeared in various magazines between 1933 and 1939...” and I suspect the characters names in my edition are the original, and have subsequently been republished as Marlowe.

Trouble is my Business (John Dalmas) 5/5

Red Wind (John Dalmas) 4/5

I'll be Waiting (Tony Reseck) 3/5

Goldfish (Carmady) 4.5/5

Guns at Cyrano's (Ted Malvern) 4/5

I am not a big fan of plot outlining short stories - it doesn't leave much out there.
Suffice it to say they are in Chandler's style. Tough guy private detectives, who make the usual mistakes, but come out all right in the end, typically surrounded with bodies! They are the hard-boiled detectives in the mold of Marlowe, whatever name is used.

Excellent. Overall 4 stars+