Recently Jeff wrote:
"I don't know when 'Smart-Aleck Kill' was written but it
struck
me as fairly weak when compared with the rest of the ones
I
read."
"Smart-Aleck Kill" was Chandler's second published
mystery
story, a direct sequel to his first "Blackmailers Don't
Shoot."
He later wrote that he started to feel most comfortable with
his
craft in his third published story, "Finger Man," which
was,
essentially, the very first Phil Marlowe story (though
the
protagonist originally had a different name). - Jim
Doherty
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