Raymond Chandler
'"Damn You, Eichelberger!" I said, and hit him with all my strength on the side of the jaw. He shook his head and his eyes seemed annoyed.',Walter Gage is hired by his fiancee to find Mrs Penruddock's stolen pink pearls. His investigations need to be discreet because it would be embarrassing if word gets out that they're fakes...,'Pearls are a Nuisance' and two more brilliant short stories, 'Finger Man' and 'The King in Yellow', plus Chandler's essay 'The Simple Art of Murder', make up this volume.
Mystery,Crime,Fiction,Mystery,Noir,Mystery,Short Stories,Mystery,Detective,Literature,American
Pearls are a Nuisance