“Trouble is my Business” (1939) was Raymond Chandler’s 21st mystery story. Chandler first wrote stories about knights of derring-do. He served in WWI, then returned to the US to work for an oil company. Let go during the Great Depression, he started writing pulp detective fiction.

Reading Chandler ninety years later is challenging. His poetically hard-boiled slang is so strange to us that the re-release of his first novel, The Big Sleep, has footnotes. In this graphic novel adaptation, Arvind David and his gifted artists make it easy: you see “shill” when Harriet Huntress uses her wiles to keep a man at the gambling table, and a “pretty hip draw” when George the chauffeur executes an attacking thug with a balletic arm motion.

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