Raymond Chandler and Taki

Raymond Chandler and Taki, a photo by richardschave on Flickr.

In Trouble Is My Business, Marlowe finds himself (unwillingly) in the office of a gangster/politician who strokes a Persian cat as he sneers. It's a black Persian, not a white one, and behaves so realistically (she gets bored and biting her master, or wanders off to sit on his desk and wash one single toe on her left hind paw) that I figured Chandler must have had cats himself. Well: it seems his secretary was a cat; that is to say, his cat, Taki, liked to sleep on his manuscripts. So much so, apparently, that she found her way into one story.

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Raymond Chandler and Taki, a photo by richardschave on Flickr.

In Trouble Is My Business, Marlowe finds himself (unwillingly) in the office of a gangster/politician who strokes a Persian cat as he sneers. It's a black Persian, not a white one, and behaves so realistically (she gets bored and biting her master, or wanders off to sit on his desk and wash one single toe on her left hind paw) that I figured Chandler must have had cats himself. Well: it seems his secretary was a cat; that is to say, his cat, Taki, liked to sleep on his manuscripts. So much so, apparently, that she found her way into one story.