Playback Contributor(s): Chandler, Raymond (Author) |
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ISBN: 0394757661 ISBN-13: 9780394757667 Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions 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 Click for more in this series: Philip Marlowe Novel |
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" L (0.45 lbs) 176 pages |
Features: Price on Product |
Review Citations: Library Journal 07/01/2002 pg. 128 Library Journal 07/15/2002 |
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 |
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