Juri,
Re your comments below:
> Please bear in mind that Chandler himself
didn't
> want
> "Blackmailers Don't Shoot" to be reprinted. It
was
> published only
> in the nineties. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but
I'm
> fairly
> positive about this.) Or the late
eighties.
You're partly right. Chandler didn't want it reprinted. It
finally was, in the '70's, in a collection called THE
MIDNIGHT RAYMOND CHANDLER.
As to why he didn't want it reprinted, your suggested
reason:
> It was one of his
> cannibalized stories, one which he took stuff
out
> from to use in "Farewell My Lovely".
It was NOT one of his cannibilized stories. He considered
including it in THE SIMPLE ART OF MURDER, and he
automatically excluded all "cannibilized" work.
The reason he didn't want it reprinted was that, as you
yourself pointed out, it wasn't very good.
At least it wasn't very good for Chandler. Remember, though,
that, despite all those chiming in about what dreck
"Blacmailers" is, bad Chandler is still better than, say,
good Carroll John Daly.
Chandler, when he was considering the TSAM collection, said
that "Blackmailers" was "pure pastiche." He wasn't that much
kinder to the sequel, "Smart-Aleck Kill," in which Chicago PI
Mallory takes on one more Hollywood case before dropping out
of Chandler ouvre forever. However, Chandler apparently
thought
"Smart-Aleck" decent to include in TSAM, though the main
character's name was changed from Mallory to John Dalmas,
causing all sorts of confusion to later Chandler
scholars.
The stories that Chandler combined and expanded to make
FAREWELL, MY LOVELY were "The Man Who Like Dogs,"
"Mandarin's Jade," and "Try the Girl."
JIM DOHERTY
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