Mr Bowling Buys a Newspaper

A favourite novel of Raymond Chandler's back after sixty years of increasingly limited availability. Mr Bowling is a serial killer who wants to get caught, in order that his torment might end, but this seems more and more improbable, especially due to the distractions of war.

Donald Landels Henderson was born in 1905; he later said, `I cannot pretend to have enjoyed anything very much about my childhood or adolescence.- Henderson was an actor and combined writing with his acting career. He died at only 44, in 1947, just three years after the publication of Mr Bowling Buys a Newspaper.