Playback

Christopher (o.d.c.) said The last go round: Marlowe is tired, Chandler is tired. " The girl sat motionless beside me, looking straight ahead and not speaking. She wasn't seeing the fog or the back of a truck we were coming up behind. She wasn't seeing anything. She was just sitting there frozen in one position, stony with despair, like somebody on the way to be hange. "Kangaroo in a dinner jacket" according to Andrew E McBurney. Playback has a fairly straightforward plot compared to other Phillip Marlowe novels. When the big mystery about Betty Mayfield is revealed at the end, I thought, "So that's it?" But the point of this novel isn't necessarily to rack up the tough guys and body-counts requisite for pulp det. Very entertaining What I love about Raymond Chandler is his ability to get you to suspend disbelief.He pulls you in,instantly,with a welter of detailed description of the setting,and then carries you along into the story he's telling,and you're off!A master story teller,in the noir genre,with his chevalie

Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. Stuck doing a sneaky job for people he doesn’t like, Marlowe feels even grubbier than usual: and he’s soon in more trouble than usual too as he comes up against gangsters, hard men, and a hitmanStarring Toby Stephens, this exciting dramatization retains all the verve of Chandler’s last novel.1 CD. The lady in question, Eleanor King, is beautiful, classy, and clearly unhappy. California in the 1940s and 1950s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily. 56 mins.. Obediently, Marlowe follows her—all the way to Esmerelda, where she’s going under the name Betty Mayfield and being leaned on by a cheap blackmailer. Clyde Umney instructs him to meet the eight o’clock train from Chicago, and shadow one of the passengers. In Playback, Marlowe is awakened early in the morning by a phone call from a lawyer

. His full canon of novels and short stories is reprinted in trade paper featuring uniform covers in Black Lizard's signature style. From Library Journal Chandler is not only the best writer of hardboiled PI stories, he's one of the 20th century's top scribes, period. A handsome set for a reasonable price. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc