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Quotation by Raymond Chandler
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"Beginning of an Essay" The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler (1976)Bruno Antony (Robert Walker) and Judge Dolan (Charles Meredith), Strangers on a Train (1951)Bruno Antony (Robert Walker), Strangers on a Train (1951)"Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel" (1949)"Great Thought" The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler (1976)Related Subjects
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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; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.
Raymond Chandler (1888–1959), U.S. author. "The Simple Art of Murder," Atlantic Monthly (Boston, Dec. 1944, repr. 1950).
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