Playback is Raymond Chandler's gripping last full-length novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe. 'Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since' Paul Auster Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is mixing business with pleasure - he's getting paid to follow a lovely mysterious redhead called Eleanor King. And wherever Miss King goes, trouble is sure to follow. But she's easy on the eye and Marlowe's happy to do as he's told. But one dead body later and what started out as a lazy afternoon's snooping soon becomes a deadly cocktail of blackmail, lies, mistaken identity - and murder . . . 'Chandler grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph 'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times 'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess
| ISBN: | 9780241956250 |
| Publication date: | 31st March 2011 |
| Author: | Raymond Chandler, Kathy Reichs |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Series: | Phillip Marlowe |
| Genres: |
Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction Classic Crime and Mystery Fiction |