Miker,
Re your comment below:
"Thank you, Jim. It looks like I'm out of luck for a while.
My 1977 Ballantine copy of THE SIMPLE ART OF MURDER starts
with the essay. No intro. I'll keep a look out for copies
with the intro."
I could be wrong, and paperback gurus like Bill may be able
to confirm or deny this, but I believe that Ballantine
divided TSAM into three different volumes. TROUBLE IS MY
BUSINESS collected the four Marlowe stories, "Finger Man,"
"Goldfish," "Red Wind," and
"Trouble Is My Business." PICKUP ON NOON STREET collected
another four or five stories, including the title entry. THE
SIMPLE ART OF MURDER collected the remaining stories plus the
TSAM essay. If memory serves, it seems to me that the intro
from the hardback edition of TSAM, from which the "darkness
more than night" phrase is derived, was included in the
Ballantine edition of either TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS or PICKUP
ON NOON STREET.
And, of course, you can probably find a complete hardback
edition of TSAM at your public library.
JIM DOHERTY
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