title: Raymond Chandler: Collected Stories (Everyman's Library)
author:  Raymond Chandler 
description: It was a big year for Chandler: not only did Knopf release his full canon in this hardcover trio, which includes some long-out-of-print stories, but Vintage also released a new set of paperbacks (LJ 7/02) of all his books. (LJ 9/15/02) <br />Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  _Raymond Chandler famously hated science fiction, saying “They pay brisk money
  for this crap?” However, it has recently come to light that Chandler secretly
  wrote a series of stories and novels starring a robot detective. He then burnt
  all the manuscripts and went on writing his noir masterpieces. Unknown to
  Chandler, his housekeeper had managed to save some of these discarded
  manuscripts from the grate in his study, preserving the tales for future
  generations._
  
  
  _The first of these stories was recently unearthed by author Adam Christopher.
  On the topic of how the manuscript made its way from Chandler’s study in
  California to Christopher’s home in England, Christopher is suspiciously
  quiet._
  
  
  _This novelette was acquired and edited for Tor.com by editor[Paul
  Stevens](https://www.tor.com/tags/Edited%20by%20Paul%20Stevens)._
  