Killer in The Rain - Cannibalization

Cannibalization

During his lifetime, it was Chandler's personal desire that the stories not be reprinted. This was because he felt that the plots had become cannibalized — in the process of writing three of his novels, Chandler had borrowed, expanded, and extensively reworked plots, passages, and characters from these eight stories. The Big Sleep made use of "The Curtain", "Killer in the Rain", as well as small passages from "Finger Man". Farewell, My Lovely made use of "The Man Who Loved Dogs", "Try the Girl" and "Mandarin's Jade". The Lady in the Lake made use of the short story of the same name, "Bay City Blues" and "No Crime in the Mountains". The opening passage of "The Curtain" would also be revised and reused for the same function in his sixth novel, The Long Goodbye.

Works by Raymond Chandler
Novels
  • The Big Sleep
  • Farewell, My Lovely
  • The High Window
  • The Lady in the Lake
  • The Little Sister
  • The Long Goodbye
  • Playback
  • Poodle Springs
Characters
  • Philip Marlowe
Short story
collections
  • Five Murderers
  • Five Sinister Characters
  • Fingerman and Other Stories
  • The Simple Art of Murder
  • Killer in the Rain
  • The Midnight Raymond Chandler
  • Trouble is My Business
  • Pickup on Noon Street
  • Spanish Blood
Non-fiction
  • Raymond Chandler Speaking
  • Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler
Screenplays
  • Double Indemnity
  • And Now Tomorrow
  • The Unseen
  • The Blue Dahlia
  • Strangers on a Train
  • Playback
Film
adaptations
  • Time to Kill (1942)
  • The Falcon Takes Over (1942)
  • Murder, My Sweet (1944)
  • The Big Sleep (1946)
  • The Brasher Doubloon (1947)
  • Lady in the Lake (1947)
  • Marlowe (1969)
  • The Long Goodbye (1973)
  • Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
  • The Big Sleep (1978)
  • Poodle Springs (1998)

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