“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.”

—  Raymond Chandler, book The Simple Art of Murder

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

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