All too brief to really get your teeth into. Short 100 pg novella. ( )

Not really my sort of book, I kept reading only because I needed a short read for my 2015 reading challenge, otherwise I'd had left it unfinished. ( )

The obvious advantage of the Penguin Modern Classics mini-series is that each volume offers a taste of an author at a very low price. Thus, Killer in the rain offers the title story of what was originally published as a short story collection in a slim, small-size pocket book.

Killer in the rain is a detective story with elements of murder and blackmail. The style of writing brings together a number of features which have long since become the cliche hall-marks of the detective genre. Perhaps the style of Chandler's fiction is a tat more literary than the regular pulp.

An interesting diversion in a genre I do not usually prefer to select my readings from. ( )