Killer In The Rain. Being: Killer in the Rain; The Man who liked Dogs; The Curtain; Try the Girl; Mandarin's Jade; Bay City Blues; The Lady in the Lake; No Crime in the Mountains. With an Introduction by Philip Durham.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. [Modern literature] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2]; xii; [2]; 394; [6]. Publisher's blue cloth, white titles to upper and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Rob Howard priced at $5.50 to front flap. Light pencil annotations here and there. Gentle wear to jacket extremities. Near fine. An anthology of eight tales from the king of detective fiction. It was Chandler's wish that these stories not be reprinted or collected during his lifetime, as he had borrowed extensively from their plots to furnish/complete his other novels. Item #64417
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