Some damage, wear and staining on the cover. Pages are well intact with only minor wear, but yellowed from time. Overall a sturdy book. These are a collection of short stories by Raymond Chandler, creator of Philip Marlowe: the ORIGINAL private eye. Eight of his finest stories from the 1930s pulp magazines. Always gripping the minds of readers right from the first sentence! “Sharper than a hoodlum’s switchblade, more exciting than an unexpected redhead and stronger than a double shot of whiskey, they are packed full of the punchy poetry and laconic wit that makes Chandler the undisputed master of his genre”