NMLP P-025334 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Simple Art of Murder

Raymond Chandler · Houghton Mifflin · 1950

The US Houghton Mifflin edition is the true first of the collection as a book. The title essay first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in December 1944. A UK Hamish Hamilton edition also appeared in 1950, but the US edition is the collection's first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-025334 for "The Simple Art of Murder" by Raymond Chandler (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-025334, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).