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Chandler's first professional work, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in Black Mask magazine in 1933 his first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939, featuring his famous Philip Marlowe detective character speaking in the first person. ĭue to his straitened financial circumstances during the Great Depression, Chandler turned to his latent writing talent to earn a living, teaching himself to write pulp fiction by studying the Perry Mason story formula of Erle Stanley Gardner. Everybody dies except for the tough guy with a heard of gold and the femme fatale who emerge unscratched the latter escapes. Everybody and their brother meet at the main villain place, a big shootout is insured. It turns out the damsel in distress is a minor culprit which makes her a femme fatale. A tough guy emerges (usually a PI or a good cop) who gets involved, gets knocked out, and shot at. A trouble starts involving a damsel in distress. I can actually describe the plot in practically all of them at once. The stories themselves left me out cold for the most part. Considering the fact that this comes from a guy who became a classic of the former even before his death and that he picked up some below the average examples of the latter, I agree. The latter is fairly short and its main idea is an argument for the virtues of a noir mystery as opposed to a traditional British one. This is a collection of early short stories and an essay which gave the book its name.