Name: Playback
SKU: 2543240
Price: 15.89 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Raymond Chandler
ISBN: 9780394757667

Type

Physical Book

Author

Raymond Chandler

Publisher

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Year

1988

Language

English

Pages

166

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x13.2x1.3 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN

0394757661

ISBN13

9780394757667

Synopsis "Playback "

The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe - Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson. 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

Raymond Chandler

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Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American writer of hard-boiled fiction. He was a British-American novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an executive at an oil company during the Great Depression.

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