Raymond Chandler

The Library of America • Story of the Week Reprinted from Raymond Chandler: Stories & Early Novels (The Library of America, 1995), pages 569–85. Originally published in the October 14, 1939, issue of the Saturday Evening Post and reprinted in The Simple Art of Murder (1950). Copyright © 1939 by Raymond Chandler. Published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.