Pickup on Noon Street

Pickup on Noon Street

This is one of three collections extracted from The Simple Art of Murder, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1950. The collection contains four stories, all about fifty pages long. Each is set in Los Angeles, centered on a tough-guy protagonist, and told by a third-person narrator who describes actions rather than thoughts. All first appeared in detective magazines. Philip Marlowe, hero of Chandlerâ€™s novels, is nowhere to be found. In the title story, originally published as â€œNoon Street Nemesisâ€ in 1936, undercover narc Pete Anglish accidentally becomes involved in a scheme to extort money from a movie star. â€œSmart-Aleck Killâ€ (1934), another tale with a Hollywood angle, tells of P. I. Johnny Dalmasâ€™s attempts to unravel a bogus blackmail plot. In â€œGuns at Cyranoâ€™sâ€ (1936) Ted Carmady, once a detective, now a hotel owner, gets into trouble when he discovers a pretty dancer unconscious in the hallway. Gambler Johnny De Rose hopes to avoid a vengeful gangster in â€œNevada Gasâ€ (1935) but is dragged into deadly violence anyway.
Country USA
Author Raymond Chandler
Binding Kindle Edition
Format Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages 212
PublicationDate 2014-11-26
ReleaseDate 2014-11-26

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