raymond chandler * * * playback vintage crime/black lizard a division of random house new york contents title page dedication one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty … Crime fiction master Raymond Chandler’s final novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the “quintessential urban private eye” (Los Angeles Times).In noir master Raymond Chandler’s Playback, Philip Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he’s never heard of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but then decides he’d rather help out the redhead. Creator of the famous Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler elevated the American hard-boiled detective genre to an art form. Published in 1958, Playback is the seventh and last of the full-length Philip Marlowe novels written by Raymond Chandler. The plot is paper-thin and doesn't make much sense. Title.

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But when the jundge realizes the jury is terrified of her father-in-law--the man who owns everything in this small North Carolina town--he overturns the verdict. "Playback" finds Marlowe mixing business with pleasure - getting paid to follow a mysterious and lovely red-head named Eleanor King. What I will remember most about The Little Sister is my sense that this is the “odd” one. Stalking the tawdry neon wilderness of forties and fifties Los Angeles, Raymond Chandler's hard-drinking, wise-cracking Phillip Marlowe is one of the world's most famous fictional detectives. 1. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to … Betty Mayfield is blond and beautiful and has just been found guilty of murdering her husband. It seems that I read one Marlowe novel a year, so this is my book for 2013. Chandler’s last four novels, published here in one volume, offer ample opportunity to savor the unique and utterly compelling fictional world that made his works modern classics. He moved to England when his parents divorced. Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958 I. The final complete novel by Raymond Chandler, featuring his iconic creation Philip Marlowe.

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Chandler, Raymond, 1888—1959. It appeared five years after The Long Goodbye, which was the sixth book in the series and which many would argue is the best book of them all. Due to COVID, orders may … *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Raymond Chandler, Writer: Double Indemnity.

PS3505.H3224P6 1988 813’.52 87-45922 This book is available in a print edition from Vintage Books: ISBN 0-394-75766-1. eISBN: 978-1-4000-3021-7 v3.0 Raymond Chandler, Playback (Series: # ) Thank you for reading books on BookFrom.Net The novels are "The Lady In the Lake", "The Little Sister", "The Long Goodbye" and "Playback". Playback [Chandler, Raymond] on Amazon.com. The second volume in the Library of America's Raymond Chandler collection contains the last 4 Philip Marlowe novels, the screen play for the movie "Double Indemnity", as well as essays like "The Simple Art of Murder" and selected letters. An American novelist, writer of crime fiction featuring the private detective Philip Marlowe, Raymond (Thornton) Chandler was born in Chicago of an American father and an Anglo-Irish mother.

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FREE Shipping on $35 or more! In noir master Raymond Chandler's Playback, Philip Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never heard of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but then decides he'd rather help out the redhead. About The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback. Playback is, by far, Raymond Chandler's shortest novel and can almost be read as a kind of postscript to the much thicker The Long Goodbye, or a sort of love-letter (or farewell) to his fictional detective Philip Marlowe. Playback. The voice on the telephone seemed to be sharp and peremptory, but I didn't hear too well what it said-partly because I was only half awake and partly because I was holding the receiver upside down. Playback [Chandler, Raymond] on Amazon.com.

Playback (Phillip Marlowe) by Chandler, Raymond 0140108971 The Fast Free See more like this RAYMOND CHANDLER: PLAYBACK HB DJ 1ST THRILLER BOOK CLUB EDITION 1958 $18.82 The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler is the fifth novel in the series featuring hardboiled private detective Philip Marlowe.