| Playback Contributor(s): Chandler, Raymond (Author) |
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ISBN: 0394757661 ISBN-13: 9780394757667 Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1988 Annotation: Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never herd of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but decides he prefers to help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it. "Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence: " -- Ross Macdonald |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled - Fiction | Noir - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Private Investigators |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 87045922 |
| Series: Philip Marlowe Novel |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.21" W x 8" (0.45 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it. Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence: -- Ross Macdonald |