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Red Wind - Chapter 1 Lyrics. There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your...
Microsoft Word - Red Wind notes. Notes on Raymond Chandler’s “Red Wind” Marc Seals. University of Wisconsin—Baraboo/Sauk County. Raymond Chandler’s claim to a place in the canon of American literature seems. to be gaining ground. In 1995, the Library of America dedicated two volumes to. Raymond Chandler.
Raymond Chandler, Sergio Altieri (Translator) 3.69. 573 ratings67 reviews. Collection of Chandler's short stories previously printed in Dime Detective, Black Mask, and The Saturday Evening Post in the 1930s. Stories are "Red Wind," "Blackmailers Don't Shoot," "I'll Be Waiting," "Goldfish," and "Guns at Cyrano's."
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of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen...
I GOT BACK TO MY STREET ABOUT 9 P.M. I looked up and down the block before I went into the Berglund. The cocktail bar was farther down on the other side, dark, with a nose or two against the glass, but no real crowd. People had seen the law and the morgue wagon, but they didn't know what ha...
I DIDN’T KNOW HIM AT FIRST. Perhaps for the opposite reason Waldo hadn't seemed to know him. He'd had a hat on all the time over at the cocktail bar and he didn't have one on now. His hair ended completely and exactly where his hat would start. Above that line was hard white sweatless skin alm...
THERE WERE JUST FIVE OF US in the chief‐of‐detective's office when Copernik laid it before them. A stenographer, the chief, Copernik, myself, Ybarra. Ybarra sat on a chair tilted against the side wall. His hat was down over his eyes but their softness loomed underneath, and the small still smile hun...
IT WAS A SMALL HOUSE, near a canyon rim out beyond Sawtelle, with a circle of writhing eucalyptus trees in front of it. Beyond that, on the other side of the street, one of those parties was going on where they come out and smash bottles on the sidewalk with a whoop like Yale making a touchdow...
WHEN I unlocked the glass entrance door of the Berglund I smelled policeman. I looked at my wrist watch. It was nearly 3 A.M. In the dark corner of the lobby a man dozed in a chair with a newspaper over his face. Large feet stretched out before him. A corner of the paper lifted an inch, dropp...
I OPENED A WINDOW and stuck my head out into the wind and watched the squad car tool off down the block. The wind blew in hard and I let it blow. A picture fell off the wall and two chessmen rolled off the card table. The material of Lola Barsaly's bolero jacket lifted and shook. I went out ...
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Apr 29, 2012 · Red Wind is a detective/crime short story by Raymond Chandler in 1946 which also falls into the hard-boiled fiction category. The story adds to his collection of detective short stories, novels and screenplays. The story like many of his other story falls under the hard-boiled fiction category.
Raymond Chandler. Trouble Is My Business. Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1934. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF. Access Full Guide. Study Guide.
Mar 31, 2006 · Audio CD – Unabridged, March 31, 2006. by Raymond Chandler (Author), Elliott Gould (Narrator) 4.0 17 ratings. See all formats and editions. Ramond Chandler's great gritty detective, Philip Marlow, is in Red Wind, and Elliott Gould portrays him perfectly. A mystery masterpiece by the master of mystery weaving.
