Raymond Chandler Quote

The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with.


essay, first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly (November, 1945) - The Simple Art of Murder (1950)


The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with.

The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with.

The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with.

The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with.