num_pages: 218
description: Prefaced by the famous Atlantic Monthly essay of the same name, in which he argues the virtues of the hard-boiled detective novel, this collection mostly drawn from stories he wrote for the pulps demonstrates Chandler's imaginative, entertaining facility with the form.
language: English
title: The Simple Art of Murder
titlecomplete: The Simple Art of Murder
characters: Ernest Hemingway (The Sanibel Sunset Detective), Dashiell Hammett (Trick or Treachery), Benedetto Croce (The Simple Art of Murder), Donald Henderson (The Simple Art of Murder), Howard Haycraft, Freeman Wills Crofts (The Simple Art of Murder), Henry Fielding (The Simple Art of Murder), Carl Sandburg (The Simple Art of Murder), Einstein (The Dead Harlequin), Ring Lardner (The Simple Art of Murder), Walt Whitman (The Moving Target), Aeschylus (The Simple Art of Murder), E.C. Bentley (The Simple Art of Murder), Richard B. Sale (The Simple Art of Murder), Tobias Smollett (The Simple Art of Murder), Raymond Postgate (The Simple Art of Murder), Dorothy Sayers (Trick or Treachery), Conan Doyle (The Simple Art of Murder), Alexander Woollcott (The Simple Art of Murder), A.A. Milne (The Simple Art of Murder), Jane Austen (The Short Forever), S.S. van Dine (The Simple Art of Murder), Dreiser (The Simple Art of Murder), Agatha Christie (Angel Eyes), Sherwood Anderson (The Simple Art of Murder), Kenneth Fearing (The Simple Art of Murder), Percival Wilde (The Simple Art of Murder), Robert Graves and Alan Hodge (The Simple Art of Murder), William Shakespeare (Blackfly Season)
genres: Crime, Writing, Classics, Hard Boiled, Noir, Mystery Thriller, Short Stories, Fiction, Detective, Mystery
ratings_count: 5960
publisher: Ballantine Books