John Banville on writing a new Philip Marlowe years after Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep. But when the Chandler estate asked him to write a new Marlowe thriller with the voice. We suggest the following order of publication when reading Raymond Chandler's Short Story Collections books: Killer in the Rain 1935 Trouble is My Business 1939 Five Sinister Characters 1939 Pearls are a Nuisance 1950 Smart-Aleck Kill 1958