num_pages: 384
description: Contains Chandler's essay on the art of detective stories and a collection of 8 classic Chandler mysteries.
language: English
title: The Simple Art of Murder
titlecomplete: The Simple Art of Murder
characters: Sherwood Anderson (The Simple Art of Murder), Kenneth Fearing (The Simple Art of Murder), Dreiser (The Simple Art of Murder), William Shakespeare (Blackfly Season), Conan Doyle (The Simple Art of Murder), Donald Henderson (The Simple Art of Murder), Richard B. Sale (The Simple Art of Murder), Tobias Smollett (The Simple Art of Murder), Jane Austen (The Short Forever), A.A. Milne (The Simple Art of Murder), Carl Sandburg (The Simple Art of Murder), Agatha Christie (Angel Eyes), Einstein (The Dead Harlequin), Henry Fielding (The Simple Art of Murder), Percival Wilde (The Simple Art of Murder), E.C. Bentley (The Simple Art of Murder), Walt Whitman (The Moving Target), Raymond Postgate (The Simple Art of Murder), Dorothy Sayers (Trick or Treachery), Ring Lardner (The Simple Art of Murder), Howard Haycraft, Dashiell Hammett (Trick or Treachery), S.S. van Dine (The Simple Art of Murder), Aeschylus (The Simple Art of Murder), Robert Graves and Alan Hodge (The Simple Art of Murder), Freeman Wills Crofts (The Simple Art of Murder), Ernest Hemingway (The Sanibel Sunset Detective), Alexander Woollcott (The Simple Art of Murder), Benedetto Croce (The Simple Art of Murder)
genres: Short Stories, Detective, Writing, Crime, Hard Boiled, Noir, Classics, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Fiction
ratings_count: 5959
publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard