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TMF:  The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett.  (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition, August 1992 (1929))

TTM: The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett.  (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition, August 1992 (1933))

THW: The High Window, Raymond Chandler (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition, August 1992 (1942))

TBS: The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition, August 1992 (1939))

TLL: The Lady in the Lake, Raymond Chandler (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition, August 1992 (1943))

WWW1:  World Wide Words 06 Nov 2010 (www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-she1.htm) (quoting the Ogden Standard Examiner of 12 Apr 1922, “English Language as Spoken by the Younger Generation”.)

WWW2: World Wide Words 22 Mar 2014 (http://www.worldwidewords.org/nl/trnk.htm#N4) (quoting The Sioux City Sunday Journal of 2 Nov 1924.)

WWW3: World Wide Words 12 July 2014 (http://www.worldwidewords.org/nl/yuap.htm)

TTM-F: The Thin Man (Film: MGM, 1934; William Powell and Myrna Loy)

ATM-F: After the Thin Man (Film: MGM, 1936; William Powell and Myrna Loy)

TMB: Trouble is My Business, Raymond Chandler (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition, August 1992 (1934))

TLG: The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition, August 1992 (1953))

TLS: The Little Sister, Raymond Chandler (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition, August 1988 (1949))

DI: Double Indemnity, James M. Cain (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition, August 1992 (1936))

PB: Playback, Raymond Chandler (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition, August 1988 (1958))

BGP: A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.’s Scandalous Coming of Age, Richard Rayner (Anchor Books, June 2010 (2009))

HB: Harness Bull, Leslie White (1936) [via BGP, p208]

FML: Farewell, My Lovely, Raymond Chandler (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition, August 1992 (1940))

RH: Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition, August 1992 (1929))

PRT: The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition, August 1992 (1934))

SAM: The Simple Art of Murder, Raymond Chandler (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition, August 1988 (1934-1950))

SP: Stag Party, Charles G. Booth, in The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps: The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps, ed. Otto Penzler (Knopf Doubleday (2008))

CosNov1923: Cosmopolitan, November 1923

Life12Apr23: Life, April 12, 1923

DN01Jun28: “Movie Actors’ Voices Filmed, Broad A, High C,” by George Shaffer, Daily News (New York), Friday, June 1, 1928.

SEP21Jan22: From the story “It’ll Always Be Something,” by Samuel Merwin, published in the Saturday Evening Post, January 21, 1922

GAM: “Getting Away with Murder,” by Earle Stanley Gardner, The Atlantic, Vol. 215 No. 1 (1965)

NOAD: The New Oxford American Dictionary (3d. ed.) Edited by Angus Stevenson and Christine A. Lindberg (Oxford University Press)

BF: Brat Farrar, Josephine Tey (Folio Society Edition, 2010 (1949))


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